A Stunning Desert Mirror for the Night

Six N. Five’s Skyward feels like a perfectly tuned instrument placed in the open air. Part sculpture, part sky-catcher, it sits within Manar Abu Dhabi 2025 as a calm invitation to slow down and look longer.

While it seems simple at first, it’s quietly overwhelming once you’re near it, and the audacity of the design feels truly impressive.

It’s built to capture your attention, and succeeds on that front.

“A vast, inclined mirrored plane forms the physical and conceptual base of the work, an artificial horizon that gathers the shifting sky, the golden desert, and the ephemeral movement of those who approach it.

The surface does not simply reflect; it listens, absorbs, and reinterprets.“

– PlanX Gallery

The installation is a conversation between two presences. One is a 10.5-ton gabbro stone sourced from Ras al Khaimah, dark and ancient, holding texture like a memory.

The other is an inclined reflective plane, minimal and architectural, tilted to gather the horizon and hand it back to you. It isn’t reflection as spectacle. It’s reflection as orientation.

Ground becomes sky, sky becomes surface, and you start noticing your own position in the landscape.

What makes Skyward feel special is the restraint.

The build is crisp and contemporary, using laminated glass with a pyrolytic coating, an LED screen wall, and a clean supporting structure, but nothing screams “technology.” It behaves more like weather.

Constellation-inspired light patterns can surface gradually across the plane, almost as if the night is arriving in slow motion. The longer you stay, the more it rewards you.

Skyward is one of those works that gently changes your pace. It uses weight, angle, and light to turn a stretch of desert into a moment you can step into.

You leave with that rare feeling good design can give, like you’ve been quietly reset. Upward. Outward. A little more open than before.