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Storm King, a sculpture park just an hour North of New York City, is one of the best places on Earth. This year’s special exhibit, Light and Landscape is mind blowingly beautiful, featuring large and small works that use light as an essential artistic material. The works highlight not only the visual experience of natural light, but also its vast impact on our daily lives and ecosystem. Here is artist Matthew Buckingham’s Celeritas.

Working in both film and installation art, Matthew Buckingham encourages viewers to broaden their understanding of time, human experience, and history. Latin for “speed,” celeritas has been postulated as the origin of the ” c ” — the speed of light — in Albert Einstein’s famous equation e = mc². Buckingham’s Celeritas is frequently transformed; its chalk formula is recalibrated to denote the distance light has traveled to illuminate it. If Celeritas is on display after dark, the doors of its cabinet must be shut to ensure the statement’s consistent truth.

MATTHEW BUCKINGHAM. Celeritas, 2009. Screen-printed letters on a chalkboard enclosed in a mahogany. 27 x 22 x 6 in. Courtesy the artist and Murray Guy, New York

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