(N01 = GOOD & N01 = BAD)
Our relationship with nature isn’t complex. It is rather simple. Nature affords us both Life and Death. We are born into this world and just as well taken away from it; that is the cycle of Life. We just try our best to make a good life of the in between.
Our life might have a good effect – or a bad one – on ourselves, the people close to us, or the nature around us. Even more so the effect is but subjective – what you consider good isn’t invariably so.
The installation explores this inviolable truth and the cyclical nature of Life.
Titled “the time is gone, the song is over” it reflects on the two opposing choices available to us – suppress nature or nurture it. Irrespective of the path we choose we will impose and be subject to Good and Bad. With luck on our side, in due course, we might reach our goal.
What do you do with your time?
We have perhaps managed to lay down stones to make a pavement or helped grow a garden bustling with life. Both have their need. Both bend nature to our will. Both are Good and Bad simultaneously.
Everything ends though, eventually. Irrespective of the effects we’ve had on nature we return back to it. Nature isn’t judgemental, it just drives the cycle along.
What song do you leave behind?
installation
The installation occupies an area of 50 m2 measuring 10 x 5 meters. It is composed of 2 tangential circles enclosing 4 figures each.
- Thread – Garden twine wound around pvc pipes & plants sticks stuck in the ground.
- Black soil – ±15 kg soil laid on top
dug outof the ground. - White sand – ±13 kg laid on top of the ground.
- Pavement stone – 4 cm high stones laid on top of the ground.
- Pot soil – ±20 liters laid on top of the ground.
- Flowerbed – Multiple plants planted into the ground.
The ideal choice is to dig the soil out of the ground. This helps in emphasising the effects we have on nature. If permission cannot be granted for this, then an alternative is to build everything on top of the ground using wooden templates.
project details
| Credits | Organization – Tessa Smal & Joost van den Heuvel Location – Foundation Wantijbad Dordrecht Rental – Oscar Materials – Hornbach & Action Installation – Eve Haberman Concept, Installation, Video, Images – Kashyap Krishna with thanks to Tobias Sopacua, Hayagreev Narayan, Pauline Strasters, Ganesh Vishwanathan, KunstNonStop & Stichting makerscollectief Buro Grenzeloos. Inspiration – Pink Floyd |
| Type | Installation |
| Duration | 1 day |
| Date | 26-10-2024 |
kashyap krishna 