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Karl von Orb - Artist in Berlin, Germany

Ming Pendulum

2024

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Title

Ming Pendulum

Year

2024

Material

Digital rendering

Description

The system promises balance. Its laws assume endurance.

That promise is borrowed from physics and entrusted to objects that cannot afford it. The experiment depends on ideal conditions; the vessels quietly refuse them.

What is set in motion is not only force, but expectation. Each swing carries the belief that transfer can occur without damage.

Between conservation and loss, the work holds a pause: whether inheritance can pass intact from one moment to the next, or whether history, once released, always demands a price no equation can absorb.