Updried River Hanging Stone (film 2024)
An Uphanging swaying Stone is an element I often use in different installations.
It represents a sort of varied mental state that is needed when an element or characteristics of a situation involving suspension is needed, a focus point to signify precarity or worry. It may also be a hidden stone, swaying in the deep waters where external forces are flowing across and around, to soften and erode.
The stone is also floating, defying the forces keeping it on the ground, resisting gravity, letting itself swing at varying heights.
In this moving image piece the stone hangs above it’s shadow, hiding under the reflection.
An Updried River could be said to be devoid of meaning, its soul, all its contents. Without its sounds, colours, fragrances, or stenching memories it was hiding down below.
The water has been taken, often blocked far from its source; to be used as an energy provider by aggressive economic forces.
The river stolen of its own rights to flow and to be.
There is this story from the city of Esfahan where we three artists were going to make an art project. We got hindered by war. We never could enter this beautiful city. The river was the heart of this city where people every night gathered by its shores for the coolness and sunset and the love of its beauty and all that it stood for as its big gentle living waters. Later I heard the river was stopped further up closer to its source flowing along on its way through this other country.
The dried branches, and twigs of juniper tree, crumbled while they themselves were dried up exposed to winds, cold and the drying sun now has become the river´s actual silent singing flow.
Listen…
An Uphanging swaying Stone is an element I often use in different installations.
It represents a sort of varied mental state that is needed when an element or characteristics of a situation involving suspension is needed, a focus point to signify precarity or worry. It may also be a hidden stone, swaying in the deep waters where external forces are flowing across and around, to soften and erode.
The stone is also floating, defying the forces keeping it on the ground, resisting gravity, letting itself swing at varying heights.
In this moving image piece the stone hangs above it’s shadow, hiding under the reflection.
An Updried River could be said to be devoid of meaning, its soul, all its contents. Without its sounds, colours, fragrances, or stenching memories it was hiding down below.
The water has been taken, often blocked far from its source; to be used as an energy provider by aggressive economic forces.
The river stolen of its own rights to flow and to be.
There is this story from the city of Esfahan where we three artists were going to make an art project. We got hindered by war. We never could enter this beautiful city. The river was the heart of this city where people every night gathered by its shores for the coolness and sunset and the love of its beauty and all that it stood for as its big gentle living waters. Later I heard the river was stopped further up closer to its source flowing along on its way through this other country.
The dried branches, and twigs of juniper tree, crumbled while they themselves were dried up exposed to winds, cold and the drying sun now has become the river´s actual silent singing flow.
Listen…
