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Birthday "Golden Hour installation" °17/03/1019-17/03/2020 https://youtu.be/SHwvf_H103g : LIFE STREAM 17/03/2020 from 10:50u till 11:18u ----------------------------------------------------- I'm celebrating the first anniversary of the Golden Hour installation today. In this lockdown times I do this with a life streaming The virus is connecting us worldwide and makes us aware of the superiority of nature. During this unpredictable lockdown times, the only thing we can be sure of is that the sun rises and sets. That we know for sure. Today I’m waiting for the sun to enter my installation Golden Hour. Exactly one year ago, I started to use the power of sunlight as a metaphor for the representation of the unpredictable and uncontrollable. With the title I refer to the romantic hour of a beautiful summer evening in which everything is immersed in a warm, orange glow. In this installation, the incoming sunlight is filtered through orange vinyl on the glass display case. This installation started on 17 March 2019. Ever since, I have been researching and registering, in dialogue with the sun, how sunlight enters and how I can make this daily process of change permanently visible. Every time the sun shines, I’ve marked its position with tape, creating a spatial drawing of a year. With sunlight as the main protagonist, I have been investigating the relationship between man, time and space. The poetry of change. Does sunlight ever return to the same place? |
The sun as the main protagonist
I use the power of weather elements as a raw material and as a metaphor for the representation of the unpredictable and uncontrollable. To see nothingness in action and by seeing solar time as true time. I want to sharpen the power of the imagination by increasing the power of perception, the sensory experience and the connection with the environment. This by adding something to the architecture that emphasizes the dialogue with the sun. Our life is inextricably linked to artificial light yet scientific research confirms the crucial importance of our interaction with sunlight. Throughout history, life with the sun has shaped us, we cannot live without it. Man, as part of the sun's driving energy, has no superiority . Over the past 100 years man has become a creature that spends up to 90% of its time indoors. The bare sky above our heads has been replaced by architecture as a framework and boundary. In addition, our 24-hour economy aims to eliminate 'useless' time.
insitu installation GOLDEN HOUR 17/03/2019
...WAITING FOR ....
The title refers to the romantic hour of a beautiful summer evening in which everything is immersed in a warm, orange glow. In this installation the incoming sunlight is filtered through orange vinyl on the glass display case. This installation started on 17 March 2019. From this moment on I research and register, in dialogue with the sun, how the sunlight enters and how I can make this daily process of change permanently visible. With sunlight as the main protagonist, I want to investigate the relationship between man, time and space. Will sunlight ever return to the same place? By focusing on the fast shifting of the ephemeral light images I want to make the constant change permanently visible. Absence becomes present. Inspired by Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot I want to bring a certain absurdism to life. The sunlight activates the in situ work: what can be seen literally depends on whether or not the sun shines. This installation literally takes time for the viewer to wait for the sun to shine, at a time when everything has to be fast and bite-sized. By investing a lot of time in capturing the sunlight trajectory (already a full year for one installation) I want to contrast solar time with the social standards of profitable work, standardized time and productive working time linked to the economic value of time. As a metaphor for the alienation of true time within an urban technological context. Opposite the romantic hour before the sun sets, the dystopian images of air pollution are burning on my retina. (e.g. fires in Australia, air pollution in Santiago, Chile...).
The more the air colours orange during the day, the stronger the air pollution. Contrary to "the speed" of the constant movement of the earth as such, the movements mankind makes to combat global warming seem to last forever. Are we waiting for a permanent Golden Hour with beautiful "romantic" skies all over the world?
"Is global warming an active expression of the earth itself,
its longing for warmth, for union with the Sun?
E.V. Samsonow
I use the power of weather elements as a raw material and as a metaphor for the representation of the unpredictable and uncontrollable. To see nothingness in action and by seeing solar time as true time. I want to sharpen the power of the imagination by increasing the power of perception, the sensory experience and the connection with the environment. This by adding something to the architecture that emphasizes the dialogue with the sun. Our life is inextricably linked to artificial light yet scientific research confirms the crucial importance of our interaction with sunlight. Throughout history, life with the sun has shaped us, we cannot live without it. Man, as part of the sun's driving energy, has no superiority . Over the past 100 years man has become a creature that spends up to 90% of its time indoors. The bare sky above our heads has been replaced by architecture as a framework and boundary. In addition, our 24-hour economy aims to eliminate 'useless' time.
insitu installation GOLDEN HOUR 17/03/2019
...WAITING FOR ....
The title refers to the romantic hour of a beautiful summer evening in which everything is immersed in a warm, orange glow. In this installation the incoming sunlight is filtered through orange vinyl on the glass display case. This installation started on 17 March 2019. From this moment on I research and register, in dialogue with the sun, how the sunlight enters and how I can make this daily process of change permanently visible. With sunlight as the main protagonist, I want to investigate the relationship between man, time and space. Will sunlight ever return to the same place? By focusing on the fast shifting of the ephemeral light images I want to make the constant change permanently visible. Absence becomes present. Inspired by Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot I want to bring a certain absurdism to life. The sunlight activates the in situ work: what can be seen literally depends on whether or not the sun shines. This installation literally takes time for the viewer to wait for the sun to shine, at a time when everything has to be fast and bite-sized. By investing a lot of time in capturing the sunlight trajectory (already a full year for one installation) I want to contrast solar time with the social standards of profitable work, standardized time and productive working time linked to the economic value of time. As a metaphor for the alienation of true time within an urban technological context. Opposite the romantic hour before the sun sets, the dystopian images of air pollution are burning on my retina. (e.g. fires in Australia, air pollution in Santiago, Chile...).
The more the air colours orange during the day, the stronger the air pollution. Contrary to "the speed" of the constant movement of the earth as such, the movements mankind makes to combat global warming seem to last forever. Are we waiting for a permanent Golden Hour with beautiful "romantic" skies all over the world?
"Is global warming an active expression of the earth itself,
its longing for warmth, for union with the Sun?
E.V. Samsonow
Golden Hour started 17/03/2019 18:03u
(Vinyl, tape and sunlight) First bleu tape line at 11:18u
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Follow the sun in The Golden Hour Installation 30/03/2019 timelaps
Follow the sun in The Golden Hour Installation MIDSUMMERDAY 21/06/2019 (from 16:47u till 18:30u )
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