One Thing at Least is Certain (LIGHT has WEIGHT) is an installation consisting of four steel structures, three hanging stained glass structures, sand, and light. The title stems from a parodied line from the Rubayat of Omar Khayyan, a Persian poet-astronomer’s writing- the original line reads “one thing is certain, that Life flies”. Sir Arthur Eddington parodied this line by rewriting it as “One Thing at Least is Certain, LIGHT has WEIGHT”.  The Sun’s light has been historically influential and continues to inform the way we use new tools and ideas. This exhibition will explore light as a phenomenological experience- its meaning, its way of orienting our bodies, and  its way of generating a particular mood or atmosphere. As established, The Sun has functioned as a source of light, religious inspiration, and the celestial body from which we first observed gravitational lensing (the curved light that demonstrated a large object’s gravitational impact on the space around it.) This exhibition combines and reimagines the various devices associated with the observation of light in astronomy and religious architecture.

Sound by Patrick Reed