New White Moon

Abstract

"New White Moon" is a wall object, made of a very thin silver sheet (0,3 mm) that has been intensively planished on both sides. Planishing is a metalworking technique, in which a metal surface is finished (shaped or smoothed) by hammering it. This process is taken to its limits, transforming the silver sheet from its original clean and industrial state into something that is imperfect and obviously handmade. At some unknown point when the sheet is ‘ready’, a circle of 15 cm diameter is painted on in transparent, shiny varnish. Over time, the blank silver will oxidate and get darker, while the painted circle stays white silver, making a cosmic reference to a white moon becoming visible when the night falls. The object is presented on two nails, nonchalant as it was a sheet of paper. Material: Silver 925/1000, transparant varnish. Dimensions 100 cm x 50 cm x 0,3 mm