Black skies on which stand out beams of dazzling light that seem to come out from some U.F.O films, this is the installation that has come to life thanks o performance by Dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde. The work has the task of tracking in real time the space waste to highlight the great problem of the scarcity of places in which to dispose of waste. The artist explains:

“The light installation is really impressive. It moves really slowly, but this makes it very dramatic, it’s really great to take something very abstract and problematic, and turn it into something visual and very shareable, so there was a real alien beauty to it”.

The installation was developed in form of live performance in the Dutch city of Almere, where beams of green neon light were projected into the sky at a distance of between 125,000 and 136,000.

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“On any given moment, ten large pieces of space debris the size of satellites or a rocket stage are floating right above your head, Daan Roosegaarde wants to give these objects a face with his Space Waste Lab.”

In the video below you can see how the performance took place, to find out more you can visit the artist’s website.

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