SPATIAL STRATEGIES SOLUTIONS

Written by: Boris Pecigosh

http://atelier-hayat.com/

Symbols exist in the immaterial domain of ideas, wherefrom they come forth to influence people through processes of materialization – painting, drawing, sculpting, writing, etc. Becoming material, they also become spatial, exerting their influence in physical space, relating to other elements of space, creating structures that also have their symbolic meanings, partially coming from added-up symbolic meanings of the symbols that the structure is created from, but also developing a new, complex quality that comes from the spatial interactions.

Different spatial arrangements of the same symbols spell different meanings and effects, and also lay out different paths to human actions. Human actions and movement in accordance with symbols and spatial arrangements, gain a ritual quality of being connected to the higher order of things, the quality of magic.

That spatial moment of magic we tried to create in the installation/event/performance Door of the Universe. That moment of magic that you have caught by your conscious presence, or you missed it, like so many magical moments that life presents us and only takes a blink of an eye, like a rainbow, a sunset, a shooting star or a friend's smile

The labyrinth installation that was the spatial relational frame of the paintings of mystical numbers (presented in my previous article) we designed to be the Door of the Universe. The labyrinth was built as a circular –concentric design formed by salt on the floor, supplemented with pebbles representing the material dimension.

We opened this door on the winter solstice of 2012. walking and dancing the path outlaid by the numbers that describe the universe. On the second day, the lines of the labyrinth were highlited with candles symbolizing the new light that was born, and did some more walking and dancing.

The Door of the Universe was open: