Why Would A Water Vein Need To Find A Place To Die?
Gallery Rotor, Valand Academy, Gothenburg
28/3 - 6/4, 2014
Photos by Thomas Schön.
The title “Why Would a Water Vein Need to Find a Place to Die?” is phrased as a zen koan, a type of question that aims to provoke great doubt and test a student’s progress in their thinking practice.
The title is a question based on several false assumptions.
Water does not act in the form of veins, like in the animal body, but merely reacts to geological conditions. Water does not really act at all as it possesses no agency as a being. Water does not perish, it adapts, but also, it is true that all things fade.
If opposing ideas are held in the mind at the same time the concepts coalesce, knit together and asunder. The way seeing through a net is both an abstracting veil and a grid for measurement.
( ɹǝʇuǝ oʇ ɥʇɐǝp ɹoɟ ǝɔɐld ou sdǝǝʞ ʇᴉ ǝsnɐɔǝq ǝᴉp oʇ ǝɔɐld ɐ puᴉɟ oʇ pǝǝu plnoʍ uᴉǝʌ ɹǝʇɐʍ ɐ )
middle of room:
The Importance of Keeping a Sense of Direction in the Midst of Nothingness
Iron and anechoic foam rubber. 420 x 50 x 420 cm. 2014.
Human/Ichthys
Wood & wood stain.
42 x 172 x 12 cm. 2014.
Wet Street/Starry Night
Iron, copper wire, aluminium net, broken safety glass, plastic sheet, silicone & fluorescent lights.
110 x 60 cm. 2014.
Time Traveler Bindle
Wood, ink, organza mesh bag, six antique Chinese copper coins and a 1968 english copy of the I-Ching
12 x 140 x 7 cm. 2014.
Broken Light and the Air Outside
Eight window frames of wood, tar, double mosquito net, copper nails, fishing line, prisms of different sizes and a rock. 2014.
Morning light through the prisms of Broken Light and the Air Outside; opposite wall
Liberation Loop
Steel, concrete, plexiglas, mdf & projector.
60x150x130 cm.
Super8 film loop transfered to digital video from inside 8mm projector.
57 sec loop. 2014.
57 sec loop. 2014.
Indoor cultivation of Egyptian Blue Water Lilies
Blue water lily (Nymphaea Caerulea) plant grown from seed, aquarium, mud, sand, air pump, water filtration system, fluorescent light, trestles, & radiator
Blue water lily (Nymphaea Caerulea) plant grown from seed, aquarium, mud, sand, air pump, water filtration system, fluorescent light, trestles, & radiator
120 x 140 x 70 cm. 2014.
White Lotus Wreath
Photopolymer prints in an edition of 7 (4 green & 3 black & white)
50x40 cm
