title: CYLINDER year: 2007 medium: video installation gall: Hidamari (the Glass Pyramid), Sapporo, Japan
A toy-train is moving continuously in a circle, in which there is a fixed cylinder. The cylinder has such dimensions that its height equals the circle diameter. A small video-camera is mounted in to the toy-train. It is presenting continuously the image of the cylinder in wireless way. The image is projected on one of the walls in the room where the installation will be positioned. As a result of the specific cylinder dimensions, toy-train motion and specific camera position, the image is changing in such way that at certain time intervals, the cylinder is seen either as a circle or as a square only.
CONCEPTION: The continuously changing world is woven from infinite manifestation of the two cosmic forces of creative energy, Ying and Yan, which flow smoothly one into the other. Using the symbolism of Eastern mysticism, the author humbly offers a simple example of the flowing of Ying and Yan by presenting the shifting of the square (Ying, Earth, Human, Mirco-Cosmos) into a circle (Yan, Sky, Universe, Macro-Cosmos). The viewer is made to look at this process through the window of the toy-train recalling in this way his own journey through the circle of
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