White Hole
White Hole
Project Reactionary, Title: White Hole
I started to experiment with a large weather balloon to try to understand the wind dispersal of a seed and visualise what it would be like to floating in our atmosphere. This installation became a significant part of my thought process as my reaction was not only to observe the floating momentum of the balloon, but also to realise that the balloon was full of my spent energy. As the balloon grew it devoured space creating a scary presence, its own force, its own heat and seem not to care of its fate. The word ‘spent’ as a notion had become a reality.
Taking the photograph of the installation changed the three-dimensional aspect of the balloon creating a perfect white flat circle or white curve within the images leading to thoughts of what the blank space was. The space became an endless white hole, consuming the area, creating a blank window where I imagined my energy consumption could disappear into. It captured hot air as a happening. This hypothesis allows me to grasp this phenomenon as a visual object and created a symbol of spent energy in my mind and later in my other artworks. The title While Hole is in parallel to the discovery of the black hole M87 that was discovered in 2019 - I made the connection of the radius of the balloon as an entrance to the hole of my spent energy.
By seeing my energy consumption in this form for the first time I became aware of my outer self and start to think how ‘environmentally clean’ was the energy I had used. What do we believe happens to the electricity that we burn? Presumably, it rises out of sight and out of mind or does it float around us, used but not defused?
Materials: Photograph of a weather balloon and ribbon | Dimension: 20x20 cm | Year 2019
31/03/2020