The Liminal Passage, 2019
Installation 8’ x 8’ x 8’
Video projection, motors, two sculptural prisms, 2 speakers
Sound created by sound artist and poet Guinevere Syers
A liminal passage is a space between one point in time and the next. Wikipedia defines it as “The quality of ambiguity or disorientation that occurs in the middle stage of a rite of passage. . . During a rites liminal stage the participants stand at a threshold between their previous way of structuring their identity, time, or community and a new way (which arises out of the completion of the rite).”
Wholeness and the Implicate Order Installation Governor's Island Art Fair 2014
Room 15’ x 18’ x 8’
Video, motors, clear suspended rotating panels, sound
“Everything you see is an apparition of the unseen. The forms are impermanent, yet the essence is changeless. Every sight will return to the unseen. Every utterance will end in the original silence. Do not cling to the mirages; the source they come from is eternal, expanding, spreading, bearing endless lives and endless joy…” – Rumi
Wholeness and the Implicate Order , a theory from Physicist David Bohm describes the interconnectivity of all matter. Centered around a video projection of a Whirling Dervish. Dervish's spin to release their identification with the self as separate from their surroundings and the other and to reunite with the wholeness, the one consciousness that is the fabric and essence of all.
Emptiness Installation WOP Gallery/Galleria C'a D'oro Chelsea, NYC 08/2015
The Gong recording is by Paramatma Siri Sadhana (https://soundcloud.com/propheta11).
Sunya is a Sanskrit word that means; "Void, emptiness, the true nature of all phenomena. Devoid of all independent self or substance.” The Buddhist philosophy is that "Emptiness and Form are the same". Zero represents emptiness, void, blank and at once it is the space where all possibility exists and out of which everything is created. The nature of the images are obscured. Void. Entering the zero point they re-emerge revealing their temporal nature. Bending and folding, transparent, as only a 2 dimensional "projected" reality can be. The black “mirror,” references the original Egyptian obsidian mirrors used to "see" into other dimensions. Black, a void made of all color, is the whole and the absence.
The Gong is played by sound artist Paramatma Siri Sadhana. It is an ancient healing instrument known for its capacity to harmonize the cellular structure and frequency of the human body. Sound is the basic building block of all matter, consciousness, and experience. Hazarat Inayat Khan, the ancient Sufi master said, "The knower of the mystery of sound knows the mystery of the whole universe."