The Possibility of Impossible Dialogues

The origin of technology is poetry: the link in language between poesis – meaning an act of making – and techne – the industrialisation or systemisation of that act – is just one reminder of this. The roots of science are dreams : the naming of astronomical constellations after mythological figures is just one reminder of this. For the solar land art installation The Possibility of Impossible Dialogues, Julie Louise Bacon used solar spotlights to plot key constellations that appear on the Equinox (22nd September 2012 ce) at the longitude and latitude exactly opposite that of Broken Hill : in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. An impossible meeting or dialogue becomes possible : a view of the night sky on the Autumn Equinox in the Northern Hemisphere meets the night sky on the Spring Equinox in the Southern Hemisphere.