This project questions the structure of the foundations of scientific reality based on the atomic model and contrasts this with the philosophy of phenomenology. The paradox of these two contrasting foundations creates an opening for exploration while also threading connections, which is realised through the cross-disciplinary medium of contemporary drawing. The drawings within this project are based upon diagrams of the atomic model, which have transgressed between dimensions exploring an external and internal dialogue between the eye, the mind and the body. The idea is transported through the existence of the multiple drawings and their relationship to the viewer. Each drawing alone is the symbol of specialisation (narrowing studies within disciplines) or a fraction of a whole. Condensed together the drawings are a solid form impossible to navigate. However within the maket the drawings form a perception of a whole but also exist separately creating a space, which encompasses both and which disappears and re-appears depending on the movement of the viewer. It is a structure of reality encompassing both the scientific and the philosophical paradoxically connected and separate at the same time.
This maket, like an architectural structure, is a small-scale version of a large-scale idea. For this piece to be realised it would need a large budget and also a specific site which could be viewed 360 degrees surrounding it and also from above looking down into it.
This project questions the structure of the foundations of scientific reality based on the atomic model and contrasts this with the philosophy of phenomenology. The paradox of these two contrasting foundations creates an opening for exploration while also threading connections, which is realised through the cross-disciplinary medium of contemporary drawing. The drawings within this project are based upon diagrams of the atomic model, which have transgressed between dimensions exploring an external and internal dialogue between the eye, the mind and the body. The idea is transported through the existence of the multiple drawings and their relationship to the viewer. Each drawing alone is the symbol of specialisation (narrowing studies within disciplines) or a fraction of a whole. Condensed together the drawings are a solid form impossible to navigate. However within the maket the drawings form a perception of a whole but also exist separately creating a space, which encompasses both and which disappears and re-appears depending on the movement of the viewer. It is a structure of reality encompassing both the scientific and the philosophical paradoxically connected and separate at the same time.
This maket, like an architectural structure, is a small-scale version of a large-scale idea. For this piece to be realised it would need a large budget and also a specific site which could be viewed 360 degrees surrounding it and also from above looking down into it.