solstice

LET CURIOSITY SET THE COORDINATES

Some distances
change you.

Three imagined worlds. One very human reason to look up. An observatory for the places we have yet to dream of.

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STUDY 04 / CinderFORM / LIGHT / MOTION
ORBITAL PHASE / 38 °
Three fictional destinations
04 — AN EXERCISE IN SPACE

LOOK A LITTLE CLOSER

OBSERVATION 01 / ORBIT

A small world in a very large dark.

Begin far enough away to see the moon trace its path. The planet rotates slowly beneath a fixed direction of light.

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Every study begins with a small change.

A NOTE ON SPACE
THE SOLSTICE PERSPECTIVE

We look outward to find a little more room within.

Postcards from the not-yet.

THREE CHAPTERS / ONE EXPLORATION
There is a world in a question.

FIG. 01 / SOLSTICE
01 / CURIOSITY

There is a world in a question.

Cinder glows with the memory of heat. Pelagic keeps its weather beneath blue bands. Nacre is a pale thought at the edge of the dark. None exists on a star chart. All begin with looking.

Choose a world to change its surface, colour and atmosphere. Back to the instrument ↑

FIG. 02 / SOLSTICE
02 / PERSPECTIVE

Move, and the light changes.

An orbit is a way of seeing the same place again without seeing it the same way. Follow the small moon across the horizon and watch one circle become a whole journey.

Scrub the orbital phase to position the moon in its path. Back to the instrument ↑

FIG. 03 / SOLSTICE
03 / RETURN

Bring a thought back.

The best journeys leave something unfinished. Record a world, a phase and an atmosphere. Your observation becomes a point of departure for the next person who looks up.

Save an observation log before you leave. Back to the instrument ↑

YOUR TURN / A STUDY TO KEEP

Your next thought is out there.

Your settings stay here. Save a file to take them with you.

A STUDY TO KEEP

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