I thought about what to show in Arles for a year of the world breaking apart, of counties colliding, of laws passed and decided on a black and white aesthetic of three series Rayoinism, A Light Divine, and Hamsa which share common underlying thesis to present conscious and unconscious interactions and symbols expressed in these works.
Rayonism loosely uses the groundbreaking power of the light idea of the namesake early twentieth-century avant-garde art movement. A particular high contrast B&W film facilitates the abstraction of visual properties of existing objects into a mixture of light and geometry.
A Light Divine explores the unconscious and the conscious in our lives. The communication from one to another carries on through nonverbal means: our intuitive feelings, emotions, vision flashes, and dreams. A registration of instances of this communication happens instinctively when consciousness interprets the unconscious messages and forces us to act upon them without a question. It is an acknowledgment of nonverbal communication, a light divine.
Hamsa addresses our relationship with objects when we usually don’t consciously assign any significance to them. Four utilitarian objects were chosen and put together to represent a meta-object of a higher hierarchy conceived by the human psyche. Three of them carry particular symbolism: a fig is a symbol of a tree of life, a lemon is a symbol of a heart, and a knife is a symbol of transience. These three elements are metaphorically employed to represent an eye in the palm - a prehistoric symbol of protection known as Hamsa.
