Sphere 12/16

Sphere 12/16 is a 200kg double-walled steel ball skeleton with an outer diameter of 1.80m, welded from approximately 1000 single pieces of construction steel, opening and closing itself like a shell or a walnut, and emitting sound and light when touched from inside. Watched from afar, Sphere 12/16 is a sphere: analytically precise, logical, machine‐like, functional and purely systematic. Getting closer, it becomes a polygon; the analysis reveals its approximate character. Watched from very close, it disappears into what it really is: rough material, hand‐cut and hand‐welded. It vanishes into the last truth: that the most powerful indeterminacy is located in the material itself. It is the matter that is shaking, flickering and not understandable, recreating itself in every moment.

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