9 x 1097 x 33 in / 23 x 2786 x 84 cm Elemental Metal.

A material vibration of temperature and pressure –– an encounter in elemental architecture.

Images: Composites of HYDROGEN from the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale project program proposed by European Culture Centre., Venice Italy.

HYDROGEN/ The Initiate

At first sketch, HYDROGEN is an encounter with the elemental architecture we name metal.

A structure vibrating at scales we cannot see; and born from stellar cores and supernovae at scales we cannot experience; a material indifferent to its witness exists at all scales.

The changes in pressure vibrate the form, the changes in temperature changes its key.

HYDROGEN presents in human-scale: a scale of minute yet measurable range of temperatures and pressures within all-scales: the weight of human foot stepping onto its form, the cooling of the surface from the setting sun.

At all-scale. temperature and pressure changes the material state, metals shifts from solid to liquid, gas or plasma [et al]. HYDROGEN is a material at the conditions of being human: the human encounter, the surface of Earth, evolved by our Sun, this solar system, and earlier generation Stars, sited at the arm of our Galaxy and so on.

This work isn't any more an instrument than the earth, a sculpture than an atom, or a performance than the fundamental forces dictate form..

The technology of this work is defined whole; billions of years in the making, wrought by stellar furnace and human hand, each inseparable of the other.