Orbital
Probability clouds

"Orbital 1, 6, 3, 4", Engraving on black mirror glass, 35 × 35 cm, 2025

"Orbital 2", Engraving on black mirror glass, 35 × 35 cm, 2025

"Orbital 7, 5, 6" Engraving on black mirror glass, 35 × 35 cm, 2025

Orbital
Probability clouds

Where does order end, and where does chaos begin? The works in the seven-part series Orbitals inhabit this threshold. Clusters of points condense and dissolve, form segments and scatter again. The structures oscillate between strict geometry and free formlessness. At the center lies the transitional state: a moment when something is neither clearly ordered nor completely chaotic. Densifications hint at possible origins or endpoints. Forms tilt between stability and dissolution, between clarity and blur.

The physical models evoked here stem from a paradigm shift in our understanding of matter. Instead of clearly defined paths, early 20th-century physics developed the image of probability clouds: diffuse spaces in which electrons are likely to be found. Matter is no longer seen as a sharply delineated form but as a condensation of possibilities within space.

Orbitals translates this idea into a visual language. The works display structures engraved on black mirrored glass that emerge from apparent chaos—or dissolve back into it. They explore the transition from one state to another, always in the tension between order and indeterminacy.

Stefan Macheiner
Studio: Lederergasse 67, 4020 Linz, Austria
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