O-scope (Spooky and Wild) (2015)

O-scope (Spooky and Wild) (2015)

Steel, copper, gold plated detector wire, thread, neodymium magnets, wood

74.5 x 60 x 55 cm

O-scope (Spooky and Wild) is a rotating sculpture made in steel, using magnets and detector wire from the CMS detector at CERN. It is concerned with the difficulty of entering spaces and other dimensions that cannot be seen and are difficult to conceive. The hole at the centre of the sculpture marks a journey that cannot be taken. The sculpture uses magnets like the ones in the collider’s experiments, their opposing forces signifying the difficulty of entering this world, no matter how appealing. It represents an opening into the realm of possibility, which will forever be open to the mind to explore but closed to experience. Wire thread, woven through the space of the piece in a mathematical thirteen-point pattern, is known as a mystic rose.