✪ On the Aesthetics of Windtunnels.

Saint Joseph of Cupertino, the flying friar, during an aerodynamics test.





Hieronymus Bosch 'Ascent of the Blessed.' And part of a supersonic windtunnel.
If there is any place on Earth that resonates with Platonic beauty it is the wind-tunnel. A chilly, highly specialized place far removed from daily life, reminiscent even of Bosch's tunnel of light that leads the way to heaven.





Lit beautifully by cold fluorescent light, this is a room that feels like its moving at high speed, yet isolated from the flow of duration. Wind inside a building is strange anyway, but a room constructed especially for it is an enigma, which I think is at its best when seen empty.