LC0015

A composition about a body that is barely there. An air bubble frozen into Baikal ice is visible only by its rim: everything else is transparent enough to read as emptiness. The author takes that literally — a flat, rounded dome with fine radial ribbing along the edge and a short tail.

Hundreds of domes hang mixed with tiny bubble-beads at varied heights and tilts; some trail down on long threads with sparse beads, like a chain frozen in mid-rise. What you read is not an object but a medium.

By day the composition is all but invisible: a cool bluish cast, a cloud of small clear things that is easy to overlook. In the evening the light enters the ribbing and traces every dome with a glowing net of ribs, while the bubbles flash as small points. The room becomes a body of ice with the bubbles stopped inside it.

Where it works

Generous rooms — lobbies, pools and spas, panoramic living rooms, meeting rooms. Transparency needs a dark backdrop: against a white ceiling the piece disappears by day.

Selection by space: Hotel lobby and public spaces · Spa and pool

Style

Natural abstraction with a scientific edge: the form is taken from the phenomenon, not stylised. The message is contemplative — a piece you look into.