The Opposite of a Duck
PROJECT OVERVIEW
..."philosophy begins in wonder… and, if it cannot answer so many questions as we could wish, has at least the power of asking questions... and showing the strangeness and wonder lying just below the surface of even the commonest things of daily life.” --Bertrand Russell. Through an online query, the artist collected hundreds of unanswerable questions from philosophers from around the world. An undulating steel frame holds circuit boards that hang like an open venetian blind, with LEDs on the edges of both sides, making a transparent, 3-dimensional, two-sided display. The scrolling lines and words are visible inside and outside through the windows. Lines of light slowly scroll around the sculpture; speeding up, followed by one of hundreds of unanswerable questions.