2012
PLATONIC YEAR
The proposed artwork positions the space around the axis passing through the centers of two compositions installed on two opposite walls.
Being on the axis means possessing the center, having it within oneself, and for the building in question, a dwelling, it symbolizes the central perspective given to events.
Every building is always a privileged point from which to observe and participate in changes, be they social, political, or economic, and the two representations of the celestial vault aim to symbolically fix this privileged point of observation and participation.
On the plane of two walls, preferably opposite each other, the two installations are fixed: one represents the northern celestial vault, the other the southern celestial vault.
The main points of the two celestial hemispheres are the celestial north pole and the celestial south pole, and they are emphasized as the two orientation points par excellence. The axis on which the school is located is thus the line that crosses it on one facade αUrsae Minoris and on the other σOctantis, respectively the two stars which in the current era, that of the Pisces, coincide with the celestial poles and have been a navigation tool for navigators of the two terrestrial hemispheres.
The representations of the celestial vault are based on the cyclical variation of the celestial poles due to the cyclical variation of the inclination of the Earth’s axis due to lunisolar precession. These variations are the path traced by the imperceptible movement of the celestial poles that occurs over millennia. At each equinox, the sun rises, imperceptibly shifting to cross a zodiacal constellation every approximately 2100 years; this movement takes us from one era to another, from Pisces to Aquarius, which is the current transition, and a complete tour of the entire zodiac lasts for 25700 years: a Platonic year.
MATERIALS
Colored fiberglass, wall-painted background, LEDs.