Wind Egg Scroll
2017, Edition of 3
This scroll is one of the outcomes of the Wind Egg project, containing 5 years of work in a single dense form. As a scroll, the Wind Egg can be read as a flow both backwards and forwards. It demonstrates the intricate interconnection between technology, architectural ornament, ancient thought, and the sciences of fluid dynamics, brain and cognitive sciences, and physics. Remarkably, the project contains no fiction.
Using cutting edge wind tunnel technology, the Wind Egg project realizes the ancient Greek, Egyptian, Arabic, and Indian thought that animals and people could be fertilized by the wind just as plants are. Ahmed’s experimental work at the von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics (BE) saw the insemination, fertilization and incubation of a wind egg.
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2017, Edition of 3
This scroll is one of the outcomes of the Wind Egg project, containing 5 years of work in a single dense form. As a scroll, the Wind Egg can be read as a flow both backwards and forwards. It demonstrates the intricate interconnection between technology, architectural ornament, ancient thought, and the sciences of fluid dynamics, brain and cognitive sciences, and physics. Remarkably, the project contains no fiction.
Using cutting edge wind tunnel technology, the Wind Egg project realizes the ancient Greek, Egyptian, Arabic, and Indian thought that animals and people could be fertilized by the wind just as plants are. Ahmed’s experimental work at the von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics (BE) saw the insemination, fertilization and incubation of a wind egg.
Framed sections of the Wind Egg Scroll are also available.
Section I.
Section II.
