Centre of Pressure
Bonny Poon / Conditions•May 31, 2025 — Jul 26, 2025
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Centre of Pressure is a sculpture based on Michael Snow’s Flight Stop which synthesized two-and three-dimensional proportions from all 60 geese in the original installation into a single, abstract, imprecise, composite. This project is grounded in my long-term proximity to the geese by virtue of being at the mall a lot as both a passive cohabitant/shopper/loiterer and as an active observer/researcher/admirer. Frozen in flight in the glass atrium, the Flight Stop geese are always lit by a combination of natural and artificial light-seen often contre-jour and literally suspended within the visual noise of the mall: signage, flashing digital billboards, passersby, exposed elevator shafts. They aren’t especially detailed up close, but they register as real (istic).
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Centre of Pressure
Bonny Poon / Conditions•May 31, 2025 — Jul 26, 2025
Press Release
Centre of Pressure is a sculpture based on Michael Snow’s Flight Stop which synthesized two-and three-dimensional proportions from all 60 geese in the original installation into a single, abstract, imprecise, composite. This project is grounded in my long-term proximity to the geese by virtue of being at the mall a lot as both a passive cohabitant/shopper/loiterer and as an active observer/researcher/admirer. Frozen in flight in the glass atrium, the Flight Stop geese are always lit by a combination of natural and artificial light-seen often contre-jour and literally suspended within the visual noise of the mall: signage, flashing digital billboards, passersby, exposed elevator shafts. They aren’t especially detailed up close, but they register as real (istic).
I love them.
I named the work after the aerodynamic principle of the “center of pressure,” which I saw in Leonardo da Vinci’s writings on bird flight-studies that...More
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