Remember yourself, through other people's stories
Installation introducing a state similar to trance and meditation
My favorite project is transforming and scaling to this day...
It consists of two parts:
First part is the visual aspect, where on the branches of a white tree, instead of leaves, there are shotgun shell casings smeared with paint. The tree branches symbolize the path of life, and the shell casings represent the opinions of others that shoot at our dreams, causing us to feel ashamed and give up our own. These opinions can be beautiful, but they are not our own. Afterward, we start to aspire to the imposed ideals, following alternative branches, but, having achieved success in them, we don't understand why we are not happy. The same happened to me. One day I felt the opinions of others like gum stuck to a shoe, which can be scraped off at any moment to walk your own path. This is precisely why the shell casings have the color and scent of gum - "bubble gum".
Second part is an audio component recorded with binaural microphones in the ASMR format, creating an immersive experience when listened to with headphones. The audio consists of answers to questions I pose to interesting individuals I encounter in my life. These questions are about love, life's journey, the meaning of life, our perception of reality, and questions that immerse us in childhood memories and help us recall our dreams. Once, upon asking these questions to myself, I began to notice changes in my life.
Division into black and white, good and evil, heaven and hell.
In surveillance cameras, some people see care, security, protection, a brave new world.
Others see the same object as a violation of freedoms, a Supervisory regime, and an authoritarian system.
As in the first case, so in the second case, an external object affects the internal state of a person and, like a toggle switch, clicks our state.
But when we get closer to the camera and look directly into it, we will see a mirror, our reflection in it, like everything else in this world, it is not good or bad, it just reflects us, we ourselves endow objects, situations, other people with qualities, hang labels. But the world only reflects us, the States in which we are, and if we let love into our lives, it will be reflected to us.
The observer effect in quantum mechanics is the theory that the fact of observing an object changes its properties.
It turns out that it is not possible to convey anything without distortion.
To what extent do our words reflect the meaning that we want to convey?
To what extent are the words heard perceived with the original meaning embedded in them?
The original idea is distorted from the moment of its birth and changes throughout life. The original meaning cannot be seen, since it is impossible not to distort.
One day I realized that searching for a single truth is utopia and only takes energy.
Accepting different opinions on one question gave acceptance of people as they are, which allowed me to live more relaxed. At the same time, accepting constant distortions involves critical thinking, which also helps a lot.
If you give up trying to chase one truth, the desire to prove something to someone will disappear by itself. Life is perceived as a movie where only the focus points change and each of them is interesting.
We don't know how the journey will end,
we don't know how we're going to move,
it depends on the point in time,
from the laws of each world,
but we choose what state to be in now,
not thinking about the past
and without predicting the future,
only now.
Objects, entities, and situations are transformed by the power of our state,
the universe helps us by repeating situations,
until we realize the lesson,
so we feel,
that there is something that leads us
and we are not alone.
But we ourselves
defining the path.
At the moment now.
We're always in a rush, always racing somewhere. In doing so, we often miss out on the most beautiful thing: life itself. Observe with me. Pause for a moment, take a deep breath, and truly feel this instant. What will it bring?
No matter where we live or how we live, there's always a chair within arm's reach. Right now, I'm extending my hand to you, inviting you to sit beside me. We won't even speak. After all, isn't it profoundly beautiful to share silence with the right company? In that comfortable stillness, let's admire the world together, lost in contemplation.
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