POOLS
Outernet London has partnered with Los Angeles based artist Maggie West to showcase three brand new series throughout The Now Building, Now Trending, and Now Arcade. The show uses time lapse photography to explore many details of the natural world. Through West’s colorful lens, this district wide exhibition examines the temporal shifts of everything from grains of sand to the stars in the sky.
Pools, the second part of West’s three part series, is exhibited in Outernet’s Now Trending. A stark contrast to the first part of the series, Pools finds inspiration in nature’s smallest pieces: grains of sand. While watching water absorb into sand may typically be underwhelming, the artist’s innovative use of colored lighting and time lapse photography to capture the process in which water is absorbed into sand, transforms a typically mundane action into a mind-bending, kaleidoscopic journey.
The exhibit features custom sound design by Los Angeles based composer Matt Nordstrom, who created a unique, dreamlike soundscape to accompany the work.
