cuboid wooden pillar, tree stump, cotton rope, chalk, candle
variable size
An exposition of the work “Gravitation of souls“
Author｜Mos
At this moment, I would like to spend more time on the only installation work in this solo exhibition, which is a piece of work that I came up with a whim during the two-day exhibition arrangement.It’s called “The Gravity Of Souls,” after the theme of the solo exhibition.
It is a vanishing work, with only five days of life in the physical world, fading away like a sand painting in a temple.Its structure starts with a standing white column and a rough tree trunk, as the two ends of the device, there is no first and second, just two independent individuals.And then each of them has a candle, kind of like a butter lamp in a Tibetan temple, symbolizing two different souls.They seem unrelated, but somehow there is a gravitational pull that causes them to become entangled.And this power is expressed by this zigzag and capricious pattern on the ground.The pattern uses a material called cotton thread, which is spread, stretched and twisted on the ground bit by bit, and then supplemented with white chalk in the form of a line in the blank space. This high and low visual effect gives the whole gravitational field a better depth perception.
This visualized gravity is hidden on the dark ground, so that some of the audience will not notice and step on it, disturbing the original pattern of the whole magnetic field, creating more bumpy links between the two souls.The unexpected just explains the fate of these two souls.
2019.08