A sensor
of plastic scintillator has been set up in this gallery to visualize
the cosmic ray. The cosmic ray falls on the earth from the cosmos
all the time.
Green light-emitting diodes ("LED") go out when plastic scintillator
reacts to the cosmic ray, and their silhouettes remain. After a while,
LED gradually begins to radiate their light. A thousand of LED repeat
going on and off because countless cosmic rays come flying to our
surroundings.
Birth and disappearance of the cosmos and lives are expressed in this
work by using. The cosmic rays coming from explosion of supernovas.
My intention is to tell about the world newly opened by science to
people's mind from an artistic point of view.
L'OREAL Prize (L'OREAL Art and Science Foundation)
*Scintillator, photomal, amplifier, LED, neon, cloth for tent.
*3600x1600x200mm |
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Photo by Kazumasa Sako
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