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America Age > Blog > Art & Books > Share the Sky with Somebody Far Away with These Cyanometer and Sundown Postcards — Colossal
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Share the Sky with Somebody Far Away with These Cyanometer and Sundown Postcards — Colossal

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#Macarena Ruiz-Tagle
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July 20, 2024

Grace Ebert

All images by Franziska Strauss, © Macarena Ruiz-Tagle, shared with permission

Whereas exploring the Alpine area round Mont Blanc in 1789, the Swiss physicist and mountain climber Horace-Bénédict de Saussure (1740-1799) conceived of a instrument to measure the blueness of the sky. He developed a spherical instrument dubbed a cyanometer with 53 shades dyed from Prussian blue he might maintain up and examine to the ambiance above. Saussure accurately predicted that the colour correlated with the quantity of water current, helpful data for somebody aspiring to scale a mountain.

Artist Macarena Ruiz-Tagle created a brand new model of the 18th-century instrument for the thirteenth Annual Structure Venice Biennale. Whereas the unique cyanometer was geared towards private use, Ruiz-Tagle’s design is outfitted as a postcard. Customers maintain the work as much as the sky, mark the corresponding hue, and share a thought or two earlier than dropping it within the mail. The artist additionally designed a sundown iteration with good pink, orange, and yellow rays, each of which seize the present circumstances and remind us that although we could also be bodily separate, all of us exist underneath the identical sky.

You will discover extra from Ruiz-Tagle on her web site, and choose up the postcards within the Colossal Store.

 

a white hand holds up a postcard with a round cut out in the center and various shades of pinks, oranges, and yellow surrounding it. the sunset sky shines through the middle

a white woman with brown hair wearing denim holds up a postcard with a round cut out in the center and various shades of blue surrounding it. the blue sky shines through the middle

a white woman with brown hair wearing denim holds up a postcard with a round cut out in the center and various shades of blue surrounding it. the blue sky shines through the middle

#Macarena Ruiz-Tagle
#postcards
#sky
#climate

 

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