A Quantity of Sky is a sculpture that condenses the atmosphere into an object, utilising Rayleigh scattering to recreate the shifting colours of the sky.
               At sunset, the sky reddens because the atmosphere scatters shorter wavelengths of light, allowing only the longer reds to pass through the thickened dome of air. By casting resin infused with titanium oxide particles, we reproduce this phenomenon in solid form. As the light slowly rotates through zones of increasing and decreasing scattering, it assumes the same chromatic transitions found in the sky.
               The artwork presents itself as a simple white translucent face with a single horizon line. Yet, upon noticing of the colour and position of the light, the interface is immediately understood, and a relationship with the object is birthed. Naturally, it speaks to the intrinsic, circadian relationship we have with time. The work becomes a rescaled interface with nature, an atmosphere miniaturised, condensed, and made legible, offering a direct, bodily sense of time passing.

Illustrations by David Selander