Holos
Permanent spatial artwork · 2021
- ArtistDavid Spriggs
- Date2021
- Dimensions381 × 185 × 185 cm
150 × 73 × 73 in - MaterialsAcrylic on twenty layered plexiglass planes in a lit display case on a marble pedestal
- LocationConrad Lobby, Resorts World Las Vegas
- StatusPermanent installation
Thousands of discrete marks gather into a single rotating body. Holos holds the tension between particle and whole, dispersal and coherence.
The form appears spherical, yet no solid sphere exists. Spiralling particles distributed across twenty transparent planes converge to produce a volume that seems present and immaterial at once. From the principal viewpoint they coalesce; from the side, the image opens into intervals, reflections, and separate planes.
The viewer’s movement reveals the whole as an act of perception. Coherence is not contained in any one layer. It emerges through the relation between the image, its transparent structure, and the body moving around it.
Part and whole
The title derives from the Greek word holos, meaning whole or entire. The work makes this idea visible without resolving it into a closed form. Each painted element remains distinct, while the eye continually organises the dispersed marks into a unified body.
This oscillation between multiplicity and unity extends beyond optical effect. It proposes the whole as relational and provisional: an order that exists through the interdependence of its parts.
Holos is permanently installed at the entrance to the Conrad Lobby at Resorts World Las Vegas.