Between Two Suns
2026
Joint work with Dr. Eli Keller
At every turn the sun is both origin and end. It gives life, yet witnesses to the Trinity test reached for it as the only adequate measurement for the bomb's blaze, the same language of the sublime sanctifying both creation and annihilation.
This project follows the sun through myth, science, and catastrophe, starting from the history of an abandoned thermo-solar research tower built in the 1980s at the Weizmann Institute. Describing the tower’s mirror field, stacked chambers, and furnace-like central room as an archaeologist might describe a lost sun-temple, it turns the lens back on us: the “ancient priests” are modern scientists, blind to the ritual dimension of their own work. We move through Camus’s sun-soaked world without myth, Kelvin’s sunlight-derived thermodynamic arrow of time, the opacity of a young, recombination era universe, al-Ghazali’s medieval debate over whether the universe was ever born, and the redshift that lets us use light to look back toward the beginning of the universe. Part archive, part fable, it suggests that our science and technology still run on myth: we worship, we sacrifice, and we imagine an apocalypse, persisting as we expand sunlight into the whole EM spectrum, algorithms, and heat maps.
