Ephemerology
exhibition

Defining the Parameters of Longing
Magnet, clock mechanism, plant, teaspoon of water in glass vial, pine.

Maelstrom Specimen
flask, water, motor, imbuia

Revised Edition I

Observation Deck (sometimes I just come here to clear my head) fig. 3
Photographic Print

Observation Deck (sometimes I just come here to clear my head) fig. 2
Photographic Print

Observation Deck (sometimes I just come here to clear my head) fig. 1
Photographic Print

Perpetual Motion Machines,br> moss terrariums, resistors.

The Aeon Machine
found rock, switch.

Ascertaining Uncertainty (detail)

Lingering somewhere between the sublime and the pathetic, Miranda Moss’ absurd experiments try—as well as fail— to capture ephemeral phenomena. The scientific method is referenced in a hopeless attempt to quantify uncertainties of human understanding; it is in these cracks of an empirically safeguarded reality that the imaginative, personal and poetic are able to seep in.

Taking as her starting point the idea of both Science and Nature as culturally embedded phenomena, the ever-mutating relationship between humankind and the natural world is of key concern, where dichotomies of power/fragility and artificial/natural are unrelentingly obscured. Inspecting the extent to which these clinical structures are able to contain and convey elements of human experience, the works constitute attempts at trying to solve life’s mysteries, like imaginary solutions to unsolvable problems.