Three Towers

Selected for the RA Summer exhibition. The Three Towers have a passing resemblance to architectural models they are in fact small buildings in their own right. They are related to the steel and glass architectures of Mies van der Rohe as aether is related to air, or as air is related to water. The Three Towers are amalgams of the traces of the eternal objects that wend their way through space and time, sometimes known as Ideas. The eternal objects are without existence and can only be known through the appearances they make in events and enduring forms. Three Towers belongs to a family of speculative architectures, generically called air grid, it has been the subject of my research for some time now. Air grid consists in a three-dimensional lattice structure, made from coloured threads, suspended in a transparent, supporting armature. When cast in bright, clear sunlight, most air grid structures are highly photogenic, more importantly, some air grid structures will produce kinaesthetic sensations in the perceptions of the viewing subject. If the cadence of the air grid lattice is carefully measured - by which is meant the proportions of air-to-thread, within the frame, and the proportions of thread-to-thread, within the framed-air - then the immobility of the air grid form will disappear and it will appear to be animated