Black sun, eternal light: The sun rising over the sea~ an Installation
At the end of my first year in Virtual Realities, I made an Audio/Installation piece: No Man’s Land which documents a personal journey, both physical and metaphorical. It is concerned with the small incidents of daily life, with depression, despair and the problem of identity in a disorientating world. Black holes appear in the middle of ones daily round, and threaten to engulf us. One is situated at “the edge of the world”, symbolised by “the Bus Stop” and only a thin line separates us from the chaos and emptiness beyond: the disintegration of the self and of life as we know it.
This installation piece “The Sun Rising” presents the positive aspect of this disintegration or transmutation. It is concerned with the light as the other is with the darkness. As “the Bus Stop” symbolises the edge of darkness: “the Sunrise” is the threshold of light.
It is an image that has remained constantly with me; that moment when the rising sun is reflected in the water, and the air and the sea and sky are one. And all is one. And it is the edge of eternity.
Darkness: sky and water. As the sun rises, all becomes light: the air and the water merging.
Gradually the light dims. Darkness. And all begins again.
It is recovered!
What? Eternity.
It is the sea
Mixed with the sun.
Arthur Rimbaud. Une saison en enfer.
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