Time is the internal form of space; just as space is the external form of time.

—Novalis.                     

 

In quantum mechanics, time is a property as contextual and malleable as space. Carlo Rovelli, the famous physicist, states that “in the elementary equations of the world, the arrow of time appears only where there is heat. The link between time and heat is therefore fundamental: every time a difference is manifested between the past and the future, heat is involved.” It then follows that just as time is the internal form of space, heat is the internal form of time.

 

In her short story ‘The Author of the Acacia Seeds,’ Ursula K. Le Guin speculates on a language entirely based on touch, “[they] cannot hear each other; they cannot see each other. They can only feel the other’s warmth. That is their poetry, that is their art.” Touch is heat. Touch is communication. In Reach, touch is expanded into a virtual tactile language, somatic poetry, where your touch is connected to the touch of others, regardless of where in the world you are.

 

The interspatiality of the individual sculptures allows them to maintain their connection across vast distances. The heat flow that this interconnectedness enables can be viewed through an augmented reality layer on Meadow (the social platform for exhibiting immersive content) for Apple Vision OS. Meadow turns Reach into an intimate social network accessible only to those who can touch its physical manifestation, communicating solely through the medium of their own body heat.