Sacred Spheroid (Dissolution Yantra): Initiation Ritual, 2010.
Installation:
Cast-concrete light boxes, unmixed concrete, strobe lights, black lights, wooden monolith, meditation cushion, petroleum jelly, charcoal pigment, ink, candle, deer antlers, fur, essential oil blend, sage, cedar,
incense, wool fiber, cotton prayer shawls, tools, miscellaneous vessels/implements, electrical components.
Audio/Visual:
Dissolution/Journey to the Void, 2010. Original digital moving-image and sound piece. Screened with LCD projector and digital stereo sound system.
Wardrobe:
Fur loincloth, prayer-bead jewelry, jock strap, pigmented petroleum jelly, essential oils.
Installation:
Cast-concrete light boxes, unmixed concrete, strobe lights, black lights, wooden monolith, meditation cushion, petroleum jelly, charcoal pigment, ink, candle, deer antlers, fur, essential oil blend, sage, cedar,
incense, wool fiber, cotton prayer shawls, tools, miscellaneous vessels/implements, electrical components.
Audio/Visual:
Dissolution/Journey to the Void, 2010. Original digital moving-image and sound piece. Screened with LCD projector and digital stereo sound system.
Wardrobe:
Fur loincloth, prayer-bead jewelry, jock strap, pigmented petroleum jelly, essential oils.
Sacred Spheroid (Dissolution Yantra): Consecration Ritual, 2010.
Installation:
Cast-concrete, wood, steel, clay, unmixed plaster, unmixed concrete, petroleum jelly, pigment, candle, wish bones (chromed), deer antlers, fur, sage, cedar, essential oil blend, incense, wool
fiber, cotton prayer shawls, process book, tools, miscellaneous vessels/implements, electrical components.
Audio/Visual:
Resolution/Return from the Void, 2011. Original digital sound piece. Played on digital stereo sound system.
Wardrobe:
Silk voile prayer robe, prayer-bead jewelry, jock strap, leather dance belt (chromed), essential oils, unmixed plaster.
Installation:
Cast-concrete, wood, steel, clay, unmixed plaster, unmixed concrete, petroleum jelly, pigment, candle, wish bones (chromed), deer antlers, fur, sage, cedar, essential oil blend, incense, wool
fiber, cotton prayer shawls, process book, tools, miscellaneous vessels/implements, electrical components.
Audio/Visual:
Resolution/Return from the Void, 2011. Original digital sound piece. Played on digital stereo sound system.
Wardrobe:
Silk voile prayer robe, prayer-bead jewelry, jock strap, leather dance belt (chromed), essential oils, unmixed plaster.
Sacred Spheroid (Dissolution Yantra): Relics from the Void, 2011.
Installation:
Cast-concrete, wood, steel, clay, unmixed plaster, unmixed concrete, artist’s hair, wish bones (chromed), deer antlers, strobe light, black lights, fur, leather dance belt (chromed), sage, cedar, essential oils,
tonic water, wool, process book, electrical components.
Audio/Visual:
Illusion/Dissolution (Everything is Infinite), 2011.
Digital moving-image screened on single-channel video installation. Webcast via YouTube.
Installation:
Cast-concrete, wood, steel, clay, unmixed plaster, unmixed concrete, artist’s hair, wish bones (chromed), deer antlers, strobe light, black lights, fur, leather dance belt (chromed), sage, cedar, essential oils,
tonic water, wool, process book, electrical components.
Audio/Visual:
Illusion/Dissolution (Everything is Infinite), 2011.
Digital moving-image screened on single-channel video installation. Webcast via YouTube.
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SACRED SPHEROID (DISSOLUTION YANTRA), 2010-2011.
Sacred Spheroid (Dissolution Yantra) was a durational work on the dualistic nature of human perception and the hopeful unification of inner, oppositional states of consciousness.
Themes of spiritual metamorphosis were explored through meditations on infinite, dynamic light (energy) perpetually gestating within infinite, static darkness (void). The work's process was guided by
intensive study and meditation on tantric Buddhist philosophy and practice, leading to its ideological embodiment for the purpose of physio-spiritual transformation.
Spanning a duration of two-weeks, the performative aspects of the work evolved through oscillations of mixed and multimedia, including several ongoing installations and sculptural processes, various
coinciding video and sound pieces and continuous transfigurations of embodiment, via costumed yogic dance. These rituals produced revelatory visions of light and void which prompted the creation of
sculptural relics and expanded personal codes and contexts of my symbolic language.
By entering altered, oppositional states of consciousness via meditation-in-action, I sought to conjure expressions and experiences of energetic interconnectivity in an effort to unify perceptual dissonance.
In this way, I discovered an infinite, luminous core of being.
(Read Extended Statement)
Very special thanks to Ernesto Pujol and Michael Sheehy for their wisdom, guidance and support through the duration of this process.
Sacred Spheroid (Dissolution Yantra) was a durational work on the dualistic nature of human perception and the hopeful unification of inner, oppositional states of consciousness.
Themes of spiritual metamorphosis were explored through meditations on infinite, dynamic light (energy) perpetually gestating within infinite, static darkness (void). The work's process was guided by
intensive study and meditation on tantric Buddhist philosophy and practice, leading to its ideological embodiment for the purpose of physio-spiritual transformation.
Spanning a duration of two-weeks, the performative aspects of the work evolved through oscillations of mixed and multimedia, including several ongoing installations and sculptural processes, various
coinciding video and sound pieces and continuous transfigurations of embodiment, via costumed yogic dance. These rituals produced revelatory visions of light and void which prompted the creation of
sculptural relics and expanded personal codes and contexts of my symbolic language.
By entering altered, oppositional states of consciousness via meditation-in-action, I sought to conjure expressions and experiences of energetic interconnectivity in an effort to unify perceptual dissonance.
In this way, I discovered an infinite, luminous core of being.
(Read Extended Statement)
Very special thanks to Ernesto Pujol and Michael Sheehy for their wisdom, guidance and support through the duration of this process.