Systems of Scales

I have been thinking about representation: what changes when an experience becomes an image, a model, or an idea? This inquiry follows that question into systems of scale and the ways people make distant phenomena available to thought.

Investigating Practice begins with the conditions that make interdisciplinary inquiry possible. This new entry point carries that investigation forward through representation and scale.

My practice has always investigated the image. I understand an image as a form of representation: a photograph, a model, or something mentally distilled into a way of understanding.
These forms do not simply reproduce the world. Each makes a different relation available to thought.

The diagram places a situated human observer within an interdisciplinary framework, between subatomic and celestial scales. Its vertical axis also marks the self, planetary, and exoplanetary scales. The drawing is conceptual rather than proportional: it gives relationships a form without claiming to measure them.
The continuous interface traces instruments, materials, images, and other tangible means through which phenomena become accessible. Dotted paths suggest influences beyond direct perception converging toward the framework. The three layers can be explored independently.
Representation is the hinge between a phenomenon and the person trying to understand it. The diagram asks how instruments and shared frameworks help us make relations across scale thinkable, while reminding us that every image is shaped by the conditions of its production.