Aeolus

Borosilicate glass rods, stainless steel nodes, custom LEDs, microcoax cables

Aeolus is an interactive, suspended sculptural installation composed of hundreds of slender glass rods hanging from the ceiling. The sculpture is composed of glass and light – materials that themselves exist between presence and immateriality. Glass captures the frozen geometry of the airflow, while light continuously travels through it, activated by the movement of the visitor. Like wind itself, the work only fully exists through interaction. It is both still and in motion, fixed yet constantly changing.

Each installation begins with a digital reading of its architectural surroundings. The space is translated into a virtual environment through which wind is allowed to move naturally. Rather than designing a composition, we observe one. A single moment within this continuous flow is selected and suspended in time, allowing the invisible dynamics of the space to become tangible. Every installation is generated exclusively by the architecture that contains it, making each work inherently site-specific.

Throughout history, humanity has often perceived wind through moments of disruption: storms, resistance, uncertainty. Yet its most profound contribution is quiet. Wind is a creative force. It enables exchange, migration, renewal and growth. Without it, landscapes, climates and ecosystems would not exist as we know them. With this work, DRIFT reveals the hidden traces of the wind, asking us not simply to look at nature, but to rediscover our place within it.


World premiere at Ladbroke Hall with Carpenters. Photos by Benjamin Baccarani.