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#Macarena Ruiz-Tagle
#postcards
#sky
#climate
All photographs by Franziska Strauss, © Macarena Ruiz-Tagle, shared with permission
Whereas exploring the Alpine area round Mont Blanc in 1789, the Swiss physicist and mountain climber Horace-Bénédict de Saussure (1740-1799) conceived of a instrument to measure the blueness of the sky. He developed a spherical instrument dubbed a cyanometer with 53 shades dyed from Prussian blue he might maintain up and examine to the ambiance above. Saussure accurately predicted that the colour correlated with the quantity of water current, helpful info for somebody meaning to scale a mountain.
Artist Macarena Ruiz-Tagle created a brand new model of the 18th-century instrument for the thirteenth Annual Structure Venice Biennale. Whereas the unique cyanometer was geared towards private use, Ruiz-Tagle’s design is outfitted as a postcard. Customers maintain the work as much as the sky, mark the corresponding hue, and share a thought or two earlier than dropping it within the mail. The artist additionally designed a sundown iteration with sensible pink, orange, and yellow rays, each of which seize the present circumstances and remind us that though we could also be bodily separate, all of us exist below the identical sky.
You’ll find extra from Ruiz-Tagle on her web site, and decide up the postcards within the Colossal Store.
#Macarena Ruiz-Tagle
#postcards
#sky
#climate
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