Latent Fields

A field is many things. When understood within the frame of sight, the field of view is the extent of the observable world seen at any given moment. In quantum mechanics,
fields are mysterious fluid like substances that sometimes act like particles and sometimes like waves. And so, depending on the observer, the field is sight, resolution,
measurement and interaction all at once.

In the early part of the 20th century, a new frontier in photography was developed through experiment in particle and nuclear
physics. Bubble chambers such as Gargamelle at CERN could be used to record and investigate fast charged particles in remarkably high spatial resolution. At the other end of
the field of view are the Hubble Deep Field images, constructed from a series of separate exposures taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in 1995 and 2012. The Deep field
observations reveal the most distant stellar objects ever observed. The ‘deeper’ the observation the fainter the objects that become visible on the images.

A crossing through the body of a star: from the sub-atomic to the atmospheric, from the centre of a sun to the outer edges of the galaxy, Latent Fields is a coalescence of
material, visibility, scale, and temporality.

Comprised of expansive stretches of habotai silk emblazoned with prints and drawings, all with a mesmerising sheen of copper, Latent Fields plays with notions of scale,
as the subatomic and the stellar collide.