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Calligraphic installation. Death — Bardo — Birth — Life
Death — Bardo — Birth — Life
The calligraphic installation is dedicated to the self-written poem «Is death the end?» The work is a reflection on the interdependence of natural inevitable phenomena, the flow of life and death. The poem lines are woven into the work in the form of the author’s calligraphy, inspired by the ancient Buryat-Mongolian script, which was adapted to the Cyrillic.
Part I. Death.
Death is perhaps one of the most terrible, painful and traumatic phenomena for a person, in mass culture. Death is romanticized, avoided, feared, some tries to drown out thoughts about it, «it will not happen soon.» Despite this, death continues, occurs constantly, and its number does not decrease due to the fact that they try not to notice it. Death is natural. It is a part of evolution, part of a constant process, movement. Death usually marks the end, but the end of what? The world, in one form or another, continues to exist. The body, changing its form, continues to exist. The end of something intangible?..
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Part II. Bardo.
Have you ever had such a state in a dream that you seem to be watching a sharp, dynamic art-house movie in which you are a camera watching yourself in the third person? At the same time, you understand «it’s me."You are at the school where you spent 11 years, and suddenly a friend calls you to fly into space, because you need to have dinner with your family, but you have forgot to download portfolio project, and the review starts at 11:10. Increase the saturation, dynamism and trashiness by x10 and possibly it will be similar to the experience in Bardo. Could you watch the movie for 3 weeks? As any other movie, it ends. However, a new, more familiar movie begins.
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Part III. Birth.
Birth, in culture, is mainly associated with something bright, good and holy. The arrival of a new person into the world, for the most part, causes joy and love in people. Every year a person gathers close people around him on his birthday. Nevertheless, the act of birth, before and after, is always accompanied by physical and psycho-emotional suffering, both for the mother and for the child. The suffering can sometimes be so intense that it can be one of the factors of death. As death, Birth is a moment of transformation, part of evolution, part of a constant process, movement. If death usually marks the end, Birth is the beginning. The Beginning of something truly complex and unique…
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Part IV. Life.
Life is full of pleasures and troubles. It is expressive and chaotic. Sometimes you are strangled like barbed wire. However, at the same time you are free, a white sheet is in front of you. There is death in life. There is pain in life. There is life in life. Life goes. Changes. Ends. Keeps going. Changes again. Ends… and starts… Rise. Fall. Change. Flow.
«…Нет начала, нет конца, Сами определяем мы эти части кольца, Жизнь наглядный образец… И это наш счастливый конец?..»
«…Нет начала, нет конца, Сами определяем мы эти части кольца, Жизнь наглядный образец… И это наш счастливый конец?..»
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Calligraphic installation. Death — Bardo — Birth — Life
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