Blue Project

This piece draws on landscapes taken all across the world that have been warped into 'Little Planets'. There are 53 Little Planets which rotate on the left-hand side. The significance of this number harks back to 1789 when Horace-Bénédict de Saussure and Alexander von Humboldt created the 'cyanometer', which enabled its user to measure the 'blueness' of something. This also is the reason for the shape of the spirally disk, as the original device took this form. The words that appear within the shape are one-word reactions taken from peers, students, and family as they were shown one of the 53 Little Planets. The right-hand side shows each of the Little Planets in detail as the words cycle through. The piece loops twice allowing the viewer to focus on the words and the images singularly.