Michael John Whelan
Video Installation
Film
Photography
Objects
Paper & Sound
Info
News
Frontier
Now the shadows I measure
An echo and a shadow
Mercer
Baribal
The sun shone on the
nothing new

Reprieve
A Perfect Circle
Assembly
Kindred
Clearing
Since
The Memoirs of a Madman
And penance is the play
Cathedral
Now the shadows I measure
2015
single channel video, colour, silent
1:46 min loop
(3/3) Back




Filmed in the deep basement of an Indian Planetarium, this minimal video shows the demonstration of a Shive wave generator. Invented by physicist John Northrup Shive in 1959, this device is used to illustrate wave motion. It ultimately gives physical presence to forces otherwise invisible to the human eye. The title comes from the self composed epitaph of Johannes Kepler - all that remains of the famous German mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer. He died in 1630 and was buried in Regensburg, but during the Thirty Years War the cemetery was destroyed and his bones were scattered, never to be found again.