Paid the Art Science Museum a visit 2 weeks back and one display that really caught my attention was
Handfalls - by Ichi Ikeda in the reflecting lily pond. It gave me a sense of calm and something to ponder about - even if not about his original message. It's admirable for a person to have such a strong sense of meaning and purpose in their life. It is really difficult to have that and many people, myself included, live a mediocre life with no purpose. It worries me that I may never find this meaning and purpose, and may end up leading a life of repetition where I'm just doing, instead of experiencing and growing.
Created in collaboration with DAW International, HANDFALLS is a kinetic
installation with floating images of blooming lotus flowers and hands
holding clear water, which combine with light reflections echoing from
pond’s surface on to the buildings façade. Using the imagery of hands
and lotus flowers, the project sends a strong message: “let’s create a
new landscape for the future from here and now and contemplate the idea
of a renewed relationship between the nature and the human beings”. The
multiple images of hands holding clean water suggests that this water is
perhaps not only the very same that grows the leaves and flower of
lotus landscape created out of floating photographic images, but the
hands themselves stand for a society fully loaded with hope and wishing
for a good future. Joined, the images of natural flowers and human hands
depict a new kind of a landscape woven by both nature and human crafts,
hinting us all to find what the artists has called the “primary
relations” between our life and surrounding environment, in order for it
to become one and the same.
Digital Art Weeks (DAW)
