Paul Malone : 00 Scale Installations

'Solar Wind'. 'Immiscibiliti', APT Gallery, London. 2019.

These pages show examples of installations using my 00 scale railway format. Mostly, these take the form of aerial orreries around which run elements that could best be described as 'trains of thought'. These are trains of wagons that can be seen in my triptych and 28 cms sections.

In general these contained concepts to do with astronomy and associated science. In the course of making these installations I was presented with a fair amount of technical problems which I am only now beginning to resolve. Though the engineering is fun to do!

Embedded within these projects are movies that are made specifically for the installation or documenting the installation once it is in operation. I have a small Go-Pro that I use to travel with the train as it goes around in its orbit. This gives the viewer an on-board experience which can also be transmitted to a nearby screen.

In later iterations, the engine itself is fabricated and participates in the overall look of the train.


 


Solar Wind Orrery 2019


Transmutation Orrery 2019


Towing the Stars 2018


Interstellar Water 2017


Interstellar Orbit 2016


Molecular Cloud 02 2016


Molecular Cloud 01 2015


Inconstant Heavens 2012


Kinetica 2012


Cereal City 2011


Terminus 2010


Foolish Perses 2010


Climate Model No2 2008