My first reaction viewing Sara’s portable planetarium was a mess of objects which didn’t quite make sense in their placement, but after a few seconds you can see how Sara placed each object strategically to capture the viewers attention and how each object has meaning. The installation art piece is most definitely a full round sculpture with a combination of linear elements. The planetarium doesn’t seem to have a beginning or end, there’s no focal point. It’s three-dimensional nature seems to give it an air of a “huge jumble” and it gives you the impression of “I don’t know where to look first”. The linear elements are the mobiles at the end, which seem to hang from wires and strings.

The planetarium was made using the method of construction. Sara used all kinds of materials to create her work of art such as lamps, ladders, pebbles, plastic bottles, buckets, papers, and even a projector. There is a contrast of both negative space and closed space, the open spaces seems to continually bring you back to the closed space. Even though the sculpture seems “crazy” there sees to be an element of proportion. The linear objects share a relationship with the spherical objects. But there are also components of dissonance since the sculpture seems to be moving.

The name of Portable Planetarium is a complete contradiction since it seems like all the objects are stable in their positions, and looks like they cannot be moved without the whole thing coming down. I believe the artist’s intention was to show the public that contradictions can work together quite well, and can share relationships as those demonstrated in this work of art.