Tangents

Inspired by the incredible installation artwork of
Chiharu Shiota

May I present to you,

"Tangents”

A concept piece that for me represents the efforts we make to knit all of our thoughts into a cohesive pattern
To make sense of the colorful mess the interworkings of the human psyche, Is to take away the very thing that makes it beautiful.

Human nature likes to try and unravel the mystery, where do these thoughts go when you stop thinking them?

You see you've never stopped thinking the first thought you ever had because they are all a continuation of each other
All connected in some strange mass of nerves and blood vessels that you keep just behind your eyes

If asked who you are right now in this moment, not who you were just a moment ago, you couldn’t give me the straight answer because you are made up of all the memories of who you were and who you are now isn't sure if you are the same you that existed just a moment before.

The mind is a maze of memory all connecting us to everything we once were such an amazing feature of our brain and yet somehow the ability to know who we are in present still eludes even the most “in tune” human.

These thought tangents have been brought about while listing to lectures from the incredible Alan Watts and diving into the photos of the installation artwork of Chiharu Shiota.

The connections in the lessons taught by Alan Watts and the themes of the string artwork by Chiharu Shiota fit together so seamlessly in my mind further proving the point of all things connecting the past to the present. Ancient ideas mixed with modern art, a blending of ideas and tangents that resulted in the photos you see before you.

It is in the same bittersweetness of memory and connection that this piece was dismantled in minutes after such a long time building it. The layering of string over string was unraveled, just the same as when the mind unravels in its old age and prepares for its consciousness to exit and we cease to exist in the way we once knew.