Impermanence B&W - Installation



















Impermanence B&W - Installation





Everything is impermanent, even war. It will end some day. Knowing that, we could continue to work for peace. 

-Thích Nhất Hạnh

 

 

The artwork presents a montage or construction in height, from two transparent cross-shaped axes with four equal sides (which are derived from two intersecting sides).
From them, metal threads hang to hold eight black elements that represent impermanence since some are found whole and others 
have parts consumed through fire.
These objects recreate the shields used only by women in kyudo, which is an ancient martial art from Japan, which is practiced with a long bow (kyudo means the way of the bow). These shields, called muneates, are used to prevent the impact on the woman's chest when the arrow is launched.
Medium-sized white flowers can be seen inside these muneates, 
some emerging from it.
Pieces of white fabric with same patterns of crossed lines in black accompany these objects, in the same way that branches with small and medium-sized leaves, like larger leaves of another plant, and two large flowers can be found among them. 
The artwork contains parts that make it an open and ephemeral work, with an implicit inclusion of the four elements (water, earth, fire and air).
This is because by containing elements of a living nature such as leaves and flowers, they will also be allowed to reveal the mutability of impermanence through the passage of time, which in turn makes it an open work. because it will vary as the days go by.
This passage of time and the recreation of material impermanence will be recorded through photographs that will give an account of it.

Such photographs will be added here.



Impermanence B&W - 

Installation


2023

140  x 120 cm
 Polymethylmethacrylate,  

metal wires, polipropylene, plants y flowers.

©   RL-2023-117256680-APN-DNDA#MJ 


Exhibited at Teatro del Artefacto - Bow Art (Buenos Aires, Argentina)