Olga Ast

STRUCTURE OF HOLES A Full WEB VERSION is under construction

I believe that one of the main questions of modern science will be the STRUCTURE OF SPACE.

As it is, we cannot travel from one side of the galaxy to another fast enough to not die in the process.

We need to find a way – a passage, corridor, tunnel, subway… that will lead us to this other side or even to another time region.
Could this current science fiction someday truly become a reality?

As a conceptual artist, I have worked with SPACE as my main medium since the early 1980s. One of the directions my work has taken is the analysis of structural correlation, form-building principles, and "methods of assembly" of this world.

The art objects I create are apparatuses that allow for meditation and understanding of space.

One of the basic building blocks of space that I try to analyze is A HOLE.

A HOLE (a gap, an opening, …) is something we use in many ways at many times.

A HOLE is so designed that it permits us to look into... to pierce into... to get from... and so on.

A HOLE is the point of entry and exit; the point of contact, junction, and separation; the place of origin.

A HOLE is one of the principal building blocks of the formal STRUCTURE of SPACE.

A HOLE indicates both structural correlation, form-building principles and "methods of assembly."

And if A HOLE is a main building block of space, then space cannot exist without holes. Now that we know what we are looking for, we just need to find these holes.

The question then is – how can we find these holes, and how can we distinguish them. If they are closed, do we need to open them? Or are they always open? Do we need special space costumes and vehicles? Could we mathematically calculate locations and trajectories of an exit?

Long ago, astronomers have found such black holes in the middle of galaxies; But how can we find them closer to us, in closer environs, in our neighborhoods?