Pause | kinetic sculpture : ipsitarajak

Pause : A meditative kinetic sculpture

Introduction

As part of Kinetic Sculpture module, the notion of motion was explored and I looked into invisible motion.

Defining Motion: Transition to a higher self.

While we transition from one plane/self to another, we transform.

Transformation is visible, while the invisible is transitioning of thoughts, choices and habits.

“In order to understand the dance, one must be still. And in order to truly understand stillness, one must dance.”

-Rumi

The space between motion and stillness is where the magic happens. There is nothing in the nature that can be appreciated in isolation. There always lies a conversation between opposites and that is the way balance is created.

When we are in the process of transitioning, there are a lot of emotions that plays, its chaotic, but what is there after we are transformed?

VOID: SILENCE

Pause,

Silence is beyond absence of any ambient sounds!

It's a space that allows us to have a conversation with us, a fertile pause to introspect and listen to the voice of the moment.

It is not inactivity but action in stillness.

Not all of us could see this period of pause, as silence is easily misunderstood with being silent with everything paused to feel terror.

This project is an attempt to visualise the action in stillness as the process of transition to transform creates an atmosphere of calmness.

Iterations

Following are the iterations that has been carried out where form and material has been explored from OHP sheets to a pin in order to understand if it is showcasing the particular feeling of silence.

Strings of thought

How did I find my peace sitting in the midst of unknown chattering at the edge stone of the Marine Drive?

The calmness felt in the strong winds playing with my hair and the sound of waves crashing at the tetra-pods made me feel energized.

What is that feeling? Is it the art of nature? Is it some invisible energy of nature that binds us together?

The harmony in the occurrence of day and night, the clouds playing, the birds singing, the winds blowing, plants growing, and so on…

It feels like a machine in perfect sync that hardly fails! It fails, for the unconscious act of man.

It is the science of nature, or art?

Rightly said by James Baldwin, “The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers.”

A quest to explore the sound of space, forms of light and shadow and the conversations between them. This helps me imagine the kinetic sculpture to be a conversation about feelings and memories of a place.

Here, I attempt and intend to design the sensory experience, feeling and memory I wish the viewer to carry and relate in his/her own ways.

I imagine this sculpture to be a union of opposite energies, an amalgamation of nature and technology.