Ayatana
Installation
Postmodern Primitives - Group Show
HCG Gallery: Dallas, TX 2008
Ayatana, produced especially for this exhibition, juxtaposes conceptual forms and theoretical ideas of the postmodern primitive – architectural fragments and ancient rituals combined to explore the animate and the inanimate; the natural and the technological; the real and the virtual at the intersection of form and emptiness. The work explores emerging interactive forms caught between the organic [primitive] and technological [postmodern].
Ayatana, named after the Sanskrit / Pali word for ‘enlightenment,’ juxtaposes postmodern and primitive. Here psychological existence (form, sound, smell, taste, touch and dharma, which are inner forms) is juxtaposed with outer forms of the physiological realms (eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body and mind).
