Beneath The Surface

I was SO inspired by Dan Goods and all of his work. As someone who isn’t confident in my knowledge or understanding of science, I was so surprised and how interested I was in all of his work.

His Project, Beneath The Surface, was unbelievably amazing. Set up in a dark room, the piece mimics Jupiter’s surface and the tactics that Juno uses in order to see the storms that exist deep below the clouds on the planet’s shell. The most amazing thing about this project is its minor invisibility to the naked eye. The only way the storm can be seen under the clouds is through a cell phone camera.  This piece is just so unbelievably brilliant. It takes something that is so complex that is the science of the surface of Jupiter and dumbs it down and allows us to actually see it through something so normal to us – our cell phone.

For our first project, Katie and I are doing a collaboration involving cymatics, how sound waves create visual vibrations in a surface. Beneath The Surface touches on that completely by using vibrating pads that move so rapidly they actual vaporize the water, creating the smoke that is seen in the storm. It was absolutely the perfect piece to see and research as inspiration for our project.