Last night, after seeing a performance at Tate Modern,that I don't feel it is worthy to talk about, at least for now, I had an idea. I was standing there, in front of Tate, contemplating the lighted city. But my look was directed towards the river and the water.
So many colours and reflections and a soft movement, giving liveness to it.
Water is amazing. I think it is one of the four elements that is more near to Time. It can be the symbol of Life and eternity because of its movement and continuous change (sea), or it could even symbolize death, when we refer to stopped and dirty water.
I will post again a favourite sequence of a movie. "Stalker" by Tarkovsky. Tarkovsky is using water very much in his films.
A layer of water is covering old objects, items important or not, litter, objects from everyday life or symbols. A thick layer of time is covering every single thing. Everything looks like old memories, conserved by the water. And the whole image that is being scanned by the camera looks like a big abstract painting, full of textures.
Water can be used as a layer covering things or as a surface to be "covered" with lights or projections. Its movement could give another dimension to the projection. This is what I want to try to experiment on Friday. How projection on the water could work. What kind of textures it creates? And how it could be combined with the body of the performer.
Ahm…Interesting…
ReplyDeleteIn my point of view, time, both as a human “construction” and as a mean, is the precondition for us to perceive water as water and fire as fire etc. Movement, in that way, is what allows us to understand time. So, movement is closer to a temporal perception than to a spatial one.
It is also very interesting that, historically, water is used to symbolize birth and death (birth=emerge/death=submerge, e.g. Aphrodite’s birth, The death of the Atlantes empire).
Very crucial observations Marouso.
Keep on swimming in deep water… :D