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Speed of Judgment, wood, metal, and mirrors, 2007
Scroll down to see a video of the machine in action.
This machine is a hybrid between an elevator and a guillotine. It's interactive
objective is to mimic a beheading followed by the sensation of floating above
ones headless body. I began building Speed of Judgment after reading a study
conducted by the US Air Force, on Out-of-Body Experiences. It examined a new
line of fighter jet planes that accelerated so fast that the g-forces sucked the
blood out of certain portions of pilot’s brains. This occurrence is called G-LOC,
and often causes one to have a Near-Death or an Out-of-Body Experience—and
sometimes both. When both do occur, they start with the OBE and end with a
NDE, and are like two points on a continuum. Also when G-LOC is first induced it
creates tunnel vision. Speed of Judgment attempts to combine this experience
with a beheading.
