Site-Specific Installation for the Grand Lobby of the Albuquerque Museum. 10,000 Digital prints on transparent acetate, 20’ x 20’
MERIDIAE (Muh-rih-dee-yay) is a symbolic highway of connection, a portal making visible the infinite ideas streaming from all over the world and into your mind at this very moment. MERIDIAE represents the super-stream of connected minds, worlds and ideas, re-combining and evolving through their direct impact upon you on a macro scale… yet also through subtle, infinitesimal processes, like the vitality mingling in a micro-droplet of pond water under a scientist’s microscope.
MERIDIAE relates to fractal design; the image of the entire piece is repeated in each and every smaller individual shape. Yet unlike a fractal, which is made of exact copies of itself at a smaller scale, MERIDIAE is instead made entirely of versions of itself that are unique relatives. A basic image of the overall large piece has been repeatedly digitally altered to vary the size, color, and pattern of the original, producing thousands of new versions. Upon closer inspection, one will notice that each shape has recognizably repeating characteristics.
The architectural elements of the Atrium window echo the divisions of a globe, indicating an “equator” (horizontal I-beam) and “latitude/longitude” (grid of rectangular windows). On a standard globe of Earth, a “meridian” defines longitudinal “slices” of the Earth. MERIDIAE multiplies exponentially to reveal infinite slices of infinite worlds, as well as our infinite connections to one another through time and space.
