Liliane Lijn
Heavenly Fragments   2008

295 x 65 x 65 cm

Aerogel Fragments of cone and disc on grey mirror in Perspex case, perlescent metallic coated square column housing dvd player, projector

Video: Visions of the East, 50’ looped dvd

In outer space, far beyond the planet Mars, both interstellar and cometary dust particles, travelling at 6 km a second, bombard delicate Aerogel tiles, forming conical crystalline caverns that cradle these fossils from other worlds.