Scale-Space-BLObs

What

Blast furnace Light Object Blob is the backronym for BLOb, a recursive, solar powered, space aged, golden mylar inflatable reflecting our technological progress with its forgotten past. By studying how these structures evolve at increasing scales, the notion of scale-space blobs was introduced. Beyond local contrast and extent, these scale-space blobs have an origin in its most binary form, unless a blob is just "the thing that ate Cincinnati, Cleveland, or whatever".

Where

Scale-Space-BLObs was made for the Alloy PGH residency 2013 at the Carrie Furnaces in Pittsburgh, a former blast furnace which is now a relict of Pittsburgh steel industry. The Carrie Furnace is part of the Rivers of Steel National Heritage Area.