Serapeum Helios (after Desert Storm)

 

desert sand, biopolymer, magnets, wood; 35x35x165cm

A sand object in the shape of a Trimble GCS900 GPS antenna for bulldozers floats in a magnetic field. In this form, the artefact becomes reminiscent of landmines and spaceships. According to legend the Serapeum temple in Alexandria, built under Ptolemy I around 300 BC, featured a floating Helios statue, the first reported instance of magnetic levitation.

Helios, god of the sun, is also the all-seeing god. While driving the sun chariot across the sky, nothing that happens on earth remains hidden from his view.

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