Trillion, Trillion
Status
Year of Completion
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2010
128 light bulbs, 8m x 8m x6m scaffold rig, black out curtains, DMX controller desk
“Even as a child, and especially after Aberfan, he never believed in fate or providence, or the future being made by someone in the sky. Instead, at every instant, a trillion, trillion possible futures; the pickiness of pure chance and physical laws seemed like freedom from the scheming of a gloomy god”
Saturday, Ian McEwan
The human brain contains some 15-33 billion neurons, linked with 10,000 synaptic connections - each. Each second, each microsecond, we are making choices and decisions that could alter our lives in myriad ways unknown. Trillion, Trillion explores this in a 3-dimensional, visual space utilising 128 domestic lightbulbs - the epitome of a 'bright idea'.
