But Jacob Taylor, a physicist
at the
National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Maryland, says it provides experimental data for «a quiet revolution» in statistical physics, the study of how heat
flows both in microscopic systems and on the
scale of everyday life.
Finch's talk
at the New School will focus on the artist's various public and large -
scale installations like A Certain Slant of Light (2014 - 15), a site - specific installation
at the Morgan Library inspired by its collection of medieval Books of Hours; Trying to Remember the Color of the Sky on That September Morning (2014), a commission for the
National September 11 Memorialand Museum composed of 2,983 individual watercolors representing the artist's recollection of the sky on September 11, 2001; Painting Air (2012), an installation of more than 100 panels of suspended glass inspired by the colors of Claude Monet's garden
at Giverny; and The River That
Flows Both Ways (2009), a permanent installation on New York's High Line featuring an existing series of windows which Finch transformed with 700 individual panes of glass representing the water conditions on the Hudson River over 700 minutes in a single day.
We downscale four planetary boundaries (climate change, land - system change, freshwater use and biogeochemical
flows) to per capita equivalents, and compare these to footprint indicators
at the
national scale.