7-24 April 2022 City Art Centre, Edinburgh UK
Carbon is a basis of life but potentially the source of our demise. In its purest forms, carbon appears as both a sparkling diamond and dull graphite. On Earth, graphite is far more common but, in the atmospheres of gas giants, carbon fuses into diamond raindrops, beautiful shards – valuable but deadly. Somewhere In the Universe It Rains Diamonds: Carbon contrasts the romantic mystery of the cosmos with our tedious efforts to understand it. An Artificial Intelligence that was trained on the handwriting of astronomers tirelessly scrawls data from these wondrous stellar events onto a dusty wall of graphite.
Commissioned for the 2022 Edinburgh Science Festival at the City Art Centre.