Ólafur Éliasson is fascinated with how
we perceive the world around us, and like much of his work, Your Lunar Nebula uses perceptual play
to slyly upend our sense of place and scale: standing before the work, we see
ourselves reflected and inverted in the silvered crystal spheres. Stepping
back, the overall array suggests both droplets of water and an immense
cosmos.

Éliasson has
described his sculptures as “devices for the experience of reality.” He
explains further: “As I use these ideas of seeing-yourself-sensing or
sensing-yourself-seeing, they are about trying to introduce relationships
between having an experience and simultaneously evaluating and being aware that
you are having this experience. . . . You could say that I’m trying to put the body
in the mind and the mind in the body.”