Aluminium, Black Basalt, 27 x 21 x 21 cm (H,W,D)​​​​​​​

Osiris is a small scale sculpture by Vladimir Jankijevic.

It represents a static moment of a fluid in motion contained within a spherical space. The fluid is shaped by a variety of forces like gravity and viscosity.

The shape was created with fluid dynamics simulation software using the Smoothed-particle hydrodynamics (SPH) method. More than a million individual particles were integrated over thousands of time steps to reach the selected form. The final aluminum sculpture as well as the base were hand made by the artist.

In the artist's words: « The motivation for this sculpture was born from the desire to materialize this complex and alien shape from the realm of the virtual into our physical reality. I was fascinated by the details and unorthodox shapes I generated by interacting with this virtual substance. It struck me how natural the shapes were but at the same time how impossible it was for a physical substance to assume them. This disconnect, or rather dichotomy pushed me to find a way to reveal this strangeness in an object that can be touched. There is something unreal about knowing that its shape lives in a space between abstract and physically plausible. »

Cast facilitated by Martin Gnädinger - stone base cut by Mitsutaka Konagi with Basalt provided by Cascade Stoneworks