The Artist’s Studio as Encryption Lab :: Bringing Things to a Standstill  

2010, 43 x 64 inch, pigment ink on fine art paper, ed. 7 + 1 EA, 1/7 collection Kunstmuseum St. Gallen

The stage here is a richly textured 3D model of my kitchen. The motive is inspired by the laser cooling method of physicist William Daniel Phillips, in which atoms are cooled and trapped with laser light. Phillips won the Nobel Prize for his development in 1997. The optical set-up for laser light to achieve this usually takes the size of a dining table or - a bathtub, as in my virtual reconstruction of this experiment within my own four walls. In search of an unusual perspective on the scene, I finally positioned the camera in the brass cylinder of the door peephole. As a result of this point of view, the kitchen and its inventory, for example the blue airship, appear turned upside down.