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In Amsterdam-West, close to the Sloterdijk station, a large, 1970’s office building has been renewed (“kissed back to life”) by de Architekten Cie. The most striking element of the building is a spectacular glass dome covering a 300-m2 atrium. Commissioned by the building’s principal tenant, APG Pensioenfonds, I made a work for this impressive atrium.

The dome reminds me of a planetarium or observatory, where we look at the universe from the earth. But looking at the earth from the universe, the earth is a small organic ball, full of energy, encircled by space junk: satellites and fragments of dead satellites, rockets and space stations orbit the world. A technological layer prerequisite for our existence, but which risks destruction by the increase of its own junk. With 1.600 light pixels (2 x 2 x 2 cm), transparent glass cubes which change colour under the influence of light, my design depicts this layer. It will be mounted in a three-dimensional, 10-m3 spherical frame in the atrium.

The design was developed in collaboration with Kieran Hinde and will be realised this fall by Anything is Possible.