Unseen Current is an atmospheric nebula that saturates Extension Gallery.  An immersive installation unknowable in its entirety when viewed from a single perspective, it invites visitors to navigate it like a dense rolling fog. Is it a body or is it a surface? Not exactly either, requiring over fifteen miles of brightly colored twine, 6000 sagging strings or “catenaries” will come together to form the project. Each catenary spans across the gallery and is unique in length. The designers are using custom software developed for the project by Pylon Technical to explore the form and compute the position and length of the individual catenaries.

Philip Johnson’s ethereal hanging-chain window treatments at the Four Seasons Restaurant in the Seagram Building served as inspiration for the design. Ball-Nogues “sample” what was essentially a two dimensional decorative motif for Johnson then reinterpret it for their three dimensional spatial modulations in the gallery.