Once you realize that the road is the goal and that you are always on the road, not to reach a goal, but to enjoy its beauty and its wisdom, life ceases to be a task and becomes natural and simple, in itself an ecstasy.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Friday, August 27, 2010
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
The background of our work
Our work is an exploration of light and an attempt to touch subjects such as the nature of reality, everyday objects and invention.
Light is the principal matter with which we grasp the world, its waves and particles are constructing reality within our minds (together with sounds, smells and our body’s nerves). I often think of the metaphor in which the world is being screened on our consciousness in the same way a movie is being screened on a screen.
Exploring consciousness through light is what we tried to do by putting screens and light sources together, allowing the viewers to enter the light-drawing and have their shadows become a part of the drawing itself.
Culture makes us name a particular object as a vegetable steamer. Fascinated by it, we are on an ongoing exploration of the three dimensional Iris existing in it, we found it to be extremely effective with light. Using it as a lighting fixture may create a tiny crack in our own concepts of reality and the symbols that compose it. Where a newborn child sees waves of light, a grown up sees an object he knows by his own culture to be a steamer, but it is not a steamer, its a lighting fixture. A steamer is a cultural concept, a lighting fixture is also a concept, both are composed of light, matter and the cultural language we have learned to understand the world with.
Background Song - King Dancer Band
Light is the principal matter with which we grasp the world, its waves and particles are constructing reality within our minds (together with sounds, smells and our body’s nerves). I often think of the metaphor in which the world is being screened on our consciousness in the same way a movie is being screened on a screen.
Exploring consciousness through light is what we tried to do by putting screens and light sources together, allowing the viewers to enter the light-drawing and have their shadows become a part of the drawing itself.
Culture makes us name a particular object as a vegetable steamer. Fascinated by it, we are on an ongoing exploration of the three dimensional Iris existing in it, we found it to be extremely effective with light. Using it as a lighting fixture may create a tiny crack in our own concepts of reality and the symbols that compose it. Where a newborn child sees waves of light, a grown up sees an object he knows by his own culture to be a steamer, but it is not a steamer, its a lighting fixture. A steamer is a cultural concept, a lighting fixture is also a concept, both are composed of light, matter and the cultural language we have learned to understand the world with.
Background Song - King Dancer Band
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