Salt, acrylic, acetal, aluminium, motor, fasteners, wire rope, electrical wire
120cm x 120cm x 30cm
“The Hour of the Second Sun” is a sibling to the earlier “And the Sun was Filled with Salt”, which emerged from experiences of pregnancy and child-raising. “And the Sun was Filled with Salt” embodied a constantly-tilting horizon line, revealing ever-changing and unexpected patterns and variations in density and tone within the salt.
“The Hour of the Second Sun” (which incidentally coincided with again being pregnant) is an experiment in the impact of subtle change. How would the patterns vary with a single alteration – the addition of a second outer vessel? From this doubling emerges a dynamic conversation: a paralleling and tension; a giving and taking.
Images by Jem Selig Freeman.