p=3 . 2016
in this site-specific work i wanted to examine the notion that any work of art should have a certain equilibrium between the material and the immaterial, the physical and the metaphysical, the concrete and the abstract. if absent this unity or if imbalanced the work will feel lacking and be incomplete. walt whitman articulated this concept beautifully in song of myself from the leaves of grass poetry collection:
lack one lacks both, and the unseen is proved by the seen, till that becomes unseen and receives proof in its turn. in this work that which cannot be seen is emphasised in such a way that the immaterial element is not only implied but also seemingly visualised. the wall lost the tiles once stuck to it and those tiles are lost once again on the floor paved by its equal. the composition of tiles is based on the number 28, a so-called perfect number.the theory on perfect numbers first appears 300 bc in ‘euclid’s elements’ where it is called ‘τέλειος ἀριθμός’ also translated as ‘complete number’. a perfect number is a positive integer that is equal to the sum of its proper positive divisors, for 28=1+2+4+7+14. the elements both absent and present function similar to the positive divisors, completing themselves and thus completing the whole. |
in this site-specific work i wanted to examine the notion that any work of art should have a certain equilibrium between the material and the immaterial, the physical and the metaphysical, the concrete and the abstract. if absent this unity or if imbalanced the work will feel lacking and be incomplete. walt whitman articulated this concept beautifully in song of myself from the leaves of grass poetry collection:
lack one lacks both, and the unseen is proved by the seen, till that becomes unseen and receives proof in its turn. in this work that which cannot be seen is emphasised in such a way that the immaterial element is not only implied but also seemingly visualised. the wall lost the tiles once stuck to it and those tiles are lost once again on the floor paved by its equal. the composition of tiles is based on the number 28, a so-called perfect number. the theory on perfect numbers first appears 300 bc in 'euclid’s elements’ where it is called τέλειος ἀριθμός, also translated as 'complete number’. a perfect number is a positive integer that is equal to the sum of its proper positive divisors, for 28=1+2+4+7+14. the elements both absent and present function similar to the positive divisors, completing themselves and thus completing the whole. |