Edition 1: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin-Preussischer Kultur-besitz, Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany
Edition 2: Kramlich Collection, San Francisco

In a darkened space, a copper pipe runs down from the ceiling, terminating in a
small brass valve, from which a single drop of water is slowly emerging. A live
color video camera, fitted with a special lens attachment used for extreme close-
up magnification, is focused in on this drop. The camera is connected to a video
projector that displays the swelling drop of water on a large screen at the rear of
the space. The optical properties of the waterdrop cause it to act like a wide-
angle lens, revealing an image of a room and those within it. The drop grows in
size gradually, swelling in surface tension, until it fills the screen. Suddenly it
falls out of the picture and a loud, resonant sound is heard as it lands on an
amplified drum. Then, in an endless cycle of repetition, a new drop begins to
emerge and again fill the screen.

The simultaneous scales represented in the live video/water system draw a
connection to the traditional philosophy or belief that everything on the higher
order of existence reflects, and is contained in, the manifestation and operation
of the lower orders. This idea has been expressed in ancient religious terms as
the symbolic correspondence of the mundane (the earth) and the divine (the
heavens), and is also represented in the theories of contemporary physics that
describe how each particle of matter in space contains knowledge or information
about the entire system.