Monolith

2021

The world in the monolith

A single glass column holding a world of intertwined bodies, lit from within. Monolith is a digital sculpture staged as an installation: the same object placed once in a gallery and once alone in a desert, so its scale is read first against a room, then against a horizon.

Digital sculptureInstallationLighting & render

Form

Hundreds of figures are compressed into one vertical block. Nothing is applied on top of the shape — the mass itself is the surface, so the eye keeps finding another body the longer it stays with it.

Light

The light lives inside the column and leaks out through the gaps between figures. The glass reads as a container rather than a frame: the work glows instead of being lit.

Staging

Two placements. In the gallery the piece is measured against visitors and floor lights. In the landscape the same column stands against dunes and a dusk sky, and the reading shifts from object to monument.

A glass column filled with intertwined bodies, standing alone in dunes at dusk

Monolith title frame — the column lit against black — The column in the dark — the work as it opens.

The column inside a dark gallery with visitors and floor lights — Gallery staging — scale read against visitors and floor lights.

The column standing alone in dunes at dusk — Landscape staging — the same object as a monument.

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Sand study — the surface the column was built from.

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