(amplified horizon) (map) 2000
travelling motor and lights,
blackboard, maps, wood, copper
10.5 x 3.5 x 12.5 m
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Where horizon is, where ocean meets the edge of sky: this transduction zone is a liminal space of multiple thresholds. In the limit, as the sea becomes the sky, and the sky becomes the sea, there is the threshold of the horizon. This threshold is further augmented if it is viewed in the limit of the fading light of day, in twilight. Horizon, as the edge of the earth, admits a temporal instantaneity, the very progress of time. Amplified in its made-nearness, brought forward from its perimeter path, horizon's multiple and reflexive boundaries are subject to illumination. The travelling light connotes duration and narrativizes its path. The smaller map proposes a finite destination of a commensurate or simultaneous additional path; the larger map, tagged with a point source of UV light, is a fictional assemblage suggesting horizon and diegetically, travel by water. The peremptory path of horizon's perimeter is terminated by copper flashing marked with precipitated salt which suggests hull plates. "Night Air" paint colour samples of the floor colour beneath the path of the travelling light, pairs with the twilight colour, aiiro, of the modeled horizon. Churning clicks from the travelling motor present a seeming clockworks. A skewed, chalked cartographic symbol on the blackboard, and the shape of the incandescent lit blackboard itself, add vestigial parameters to a collection of signs adding in liminal summation. Steps up to a view of a closely shielded horizon scene, in complementary tones to the indigo of the illuminated pigment line, figure a viewpoint, panorama or belvedere reference. The nested nature of this image is mention of the way viewers engage with the jewels of distant sights. *Monegal, Emir Rodriguez; Reid, Alastair; eds. Borges: A Reader E. P. Dutton, New York, 1981, pp. 160-161. |