On How the Earth Wishes to Resemble the Sky II
On How the Earth Wishes to Resemble the Sky II, 2005
Installation. Light, metal. Variable dimensions.
Collection of Museum of Contemporary Art of Castilla y León. MUSAC
This installation was part of the solo show at Galleria Continua in November 2005. For this project I was inspired in the idea of confronting the Earth and the Sky, and the endless game of reflection played between them. I was inspired in the work of Galileo and in the huge mystery that is the image of any city at night. For this work I designed a wood and metal structure that can be approached from several angles. Like in daily life, we sometimes need to take a distance to be able to understand things, here, the spectator will stand high in the staircases and will look at metal panels with tiny holes, that, lightened from below, design the topography of an imaginary city at
night.
This way, the viewer will have a literal aerial perspective, the one we have at a plane, the one that God could have, the one Galileo dreamt of having… but in the end, these tiny lights that we soon relate to a distant city, are they really just this? Or could they be just tiny, little, distant… stars? (Carlos Garaicoa)


