NEBULA

The EARTH axis exhibits NEBULA Project, by Mauricio Lacrampette and Sebastián Arriagada. The work investigates the camanchaca phenomenon, a particular coastal fog from the dry northern region of the Chilean desert. NEBULA uses a solar-powered, portable laser device, specially built to intersect the moving fog with a static, vertical section-plane of light. When shooting it frontally at different parameters of obturatio and ISO, the project becomes a plug-in for a complex landscape. The fog-scans achieved throughout this process show the water droplets in motion; they visualise the air turbulence, unveiling the chaotic inner geometry of the cloud. The objective of NEBULA is to open up thresholds of effectiveness on a climatic entity through an aesthetic, ground based human-scale process carried out in the form of an expedition. The project offers ways of re-imagining the relation between human and non-human agents of landscape, while it raises questions about matter, energy, entropy and ecology.