Inversion is cut from 21-million-year-old stone from a quarry in Lecce, Italy. The process, beginning with a 5″x7″ watercolor sketch in New York City, which is transformed into a 3D file, and then sent to a five-axis cutter in Lecce, required no working drawings. measuring 1.2 meters tall and weighing 2,500 lbs., the Lecce limestone is digitally cut with a 5-axis CNC mill by the Lecce stone fabricator Pimar. The forms are a carved out rectangular stone block, and its direct reversal as a solid. reflected in a sheet of water, these forms are again reversed. At installation, the “Cortile del 700” in Milan is covered in gravel, remnants from the digital carving process. In the evening they glow like stone lanterns powered with flexible hi-powered LED strip tubes. The architectonic constructions hover and reflect in a sheet of water.
