This little sketch of a work was created in July, 2025 during a short art camp in Noszvaj, Hungary with my students and colleagues at the Nature Art specialisation.
It is a weathervane, a sundial and an indicator of the four cardinal directions. It is a (sketchy) philosophical instrument, inspired by objects created in scientific scopes that in the distant past were considered to be part of the mechanical arts. The anemoscope, the astronomical observatory, the sundial, Georg Hartmann's astrolabes, Foucalt's pendulum or gyroscope, the tele- or microscope and even the camera obscura were once measuring instruments which helped the scientists – and philosophers – of certain ages make theories on the workings of nature.
In its humbleness, as a "philosophical instrument", it proposes scholē (σχολή). More specifically, contemplation on nature, natural phenomena and the state of the world.