Michaela Gleave
Eclipse Machine (Retrograde Motion)
2015
Projection lamp, motors, optical glass, timber, stand
90 x 90 x 140cm
Light projected through two rotating prisms is cast in orbiting motions around the peripheries of the room. Internal reflections within the prisms cause motion at certain points to double-back on itself, sending the light into retrograde. Mimicking the movements of the cosmos the forms generated reference gravitational lensing, Doppler shifts, and quantum uncertainly in a constantly shifting series of spatiotemporal relationships.