Mt. Everest
This first piece juxtaposes two incompatible systems of measurement.
A mountain, drawn on a small scale (10 × 15 cm), is placed on a 100 × 150 cm surface (scale 1:10).
Its summit, however, follows a different logic: its actual altitude (8,848.86 m) is scaled down, reaching 88.4 cm (scale 1:10,000).
Two scales thus coexist:
one compact, that of the representation;
the other expansive, almost credible, that of height.
From this disjunction arises a perceptual instability.
The minuscule bears an excessive measure, while the void becomes a space for mental expansion.
The gaze oscillates between these frames of reference without ever being able to reconcile them.
McAdams 