Art - Handfalls by Ichi Ikeda

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)