Experiment in Gravity, 2019-2023.

Installation at the Taubman museum of Art, Roanoke, Va

Punched, painted aluminum trailer truck skin, stainless steel rings.
54” x 145” x 130”

Experiment in Gravity is a metal quilt composed of thousands of tiny aluminum hand woven, punched metal parts. The material is made to explore the structure of space itself experienced through the force of gravity. The shape is based on an animation of the same material dropped through space, responding to gravity, and stopped in time.

"The central result of loop quantum gravity is indeed that space is not continuous, that it is not infinitely divisible, but made up of grains or 'atoms of space'......
They are called 'loops' or rings because they are linked to each other, forming a network of relations which weaves the texture of space, like the rings of a finely woven immense chain mail."

-Carlo Rovelli, Seven Brief Lessons on Physics