Star gazer
​2014
Exploded sky rocket on painted aluminium
225 x 105cm

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​Star Gazer is formed by a chance event within an ideal form; namely a Star Gazer fireworks rocket ricocheting off the faceted interior of an icosahedron. The work refers to Johannes Kepler, a 17th Century mathematician and astronomer that believed he had discovered God’s geometrical plan for the universe (Mysterium Cosmographicum) by determining that the five platonic solids nested inside of each other relate proportionally to the orbits of the five know planets. A theory that was relatively inaccurate and later crushed by the discovery of Uranus and Neptune. By unfolding the icosahedron, after detonation of the rocket inside, a triangulated star map emerges of an explosive event within the boundaries of an ideal system.