TRANSIT
Sculpture performance with Primacord
Each display shows a woodland scene with a cube in the middle-foreground. After some time, the cube detonates. The video continues until the smoke has cleared and the scene returns to normal. An adjacent display shows the exact same video backwards; the videos are cut such that the moment of detonation is the exact middle of each video. That is, at the exact center of the experience the cube transits from one screen to the other.
Time Crystal
In physics, a time crystal is a metastable arrangement of atoms in both space and time. A conventional crystal structure is defined by the regular arrangement of atoms in space, forming a lattice with a predictable and periodic structure. In a time crystal, the periodicity occurs in the time domain rather than the space domain; that is, a time crystal is distinguished by its periodic oscillation between spatial arrangements.
Primacord
“Detonation cord” consists of a textile sheath around a core of cast high-explosive, usually PETN or RDX. Once triggered, the detonation propagates at 6500m/s, allowing precise coordination between blast sites. The sculpture in this work is made of detonation cord: very few processes on the planet (short of a nuclear blast) transmute matter more instantaneously.
Production
This series was filmed at an explosives storage facility in Portland CT and was performed under the supervision of a licensed explosives consultant.
