Frida Escobedo . photos: © RAFAEL GAMO
This art installation, commissioned by Stanford University, is a metallic screen with moving elements that produce a melodic sound when activated.
The title “A very short space of time through very short times of space” is direct a quote from the first paragraph of the third chapter of James Joyce’s Ulysses. In it, Joyce describes Stephen experienceing an epiphany about reality as he walks on the beach. First, he notices everything that is visible and speculates about the light, the diaphanous and the opaque. The opaque — the material — is verifiable through touch: “knocking ones sconce against it”. He closes his eyes and thinks about what is opposite, and therefore simultaneous to the visual; it is the rhythmic, the sequential, the musical.
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A very short space of time through very short times of space
Highland Halls, GSB Stanford University
Palo Alto CA, EUA
Arquitecta: Frida Escobedo
Equipo: Federica Lombardi
Consultoría: Zahner Company
