Wholeness and the Implicate Order Installation GIAF 2014

“Everything you see is an apparition of the unseen.

The forms are impermanent, yet the essence is changeless.

Every sight will return to the unseen.

Every utterance will end in the original silence.

Do not cling to the mirages; the source they come from is eternal,

expanding, spreading, bearing endless lives and endless joy…” – Rumi

Wholeness and the Implicate Order

Video of an installation

Governor's Island Art Fair 2014

A theory by physicist David Bohm stating that everything is inter-connected. Every particle holds the information of each particle it has come in contact with. In addition it postulates that consciousness is the fabric that connects and directs all things.

The central video within the installation is that of a Whirling Dervish. Whirling Dervish's spin to release the ego, their identification with the self as separate, and reunite with wholeness, the one consciousness that is the fabric and essence of all.

In the center of the room there is a concave rotating piece of clear material that holds the dancing dervish in a 3-dimensional form like a holographic version of himself spinning, suspended. This material throws the light body of the dervish around the room and the visage appears to leave and re-enter its body. There are 2 reflective sculptures simultaneously turning with the movement of the room contributing to the overall hypnotic feeling, while Tim Heckers'"Dropped Piano's" plays throughout the space.

The exploration of the piece was to create a space for people to enter where they could go beyond the mind into a subtle space where the light, sound, movement, and rhythm draw the individual into the centrifuge of frequency and sensation that they may experience synchronization, and merging into that sensation. Perhaps experiencing themselves as inseparable from all that surrounds them.

David Bohm's theory discusses the idea that everything is connected, of one fabric, and that every particle holds the information of every other. The hologram reveals this theory in physical matter when the image, in its entirety, is held within each part of the material even after it is broken into many parts.