[메모] Jeff Koons and sciences

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출처 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Koons

( ... ... ) Another example for Koon's early work is The Equilibrium Series (1983), consisting of one to three basketballs floating in distilled water, a project the artist had researched with the help of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman.[8]


출처 2: https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/07/the-science-behind-the-art-of-jeff-koons/374614/

A floating basketball, a giant mound of Play-Doh, an exact replica of the Liberty Bell: His works result from artistic vision, yes, but also some physics and chemistry wizardry.

Glass, steel, sodium chloride reagent, distilled water, basketball This piece relies on the laws of chemistry and physics. Koons carefully adjusted the composition of the water to keep the basketball suspended in the center of the tank, rather than letting it float to the surface as it would normally do. “I wanted just to have water, something very, very pure,” Koons explains in an audio guide for the exhibition. “But to achieve equilibrium within the confines of an aquarium really became impossible.” Under the guidance of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard P. Feynman, Koons added a highly pure reagent grade sodium to the tank. Once he layered the water (the heavier saltwater sat at the bottom of the tank, while the lighter freshwater rested on top), the basketball would stay where he wanted.