'at the speed of stillness'

2019

 

Four rendered 360 images explore the making-practices surrounding the Japanese rock garden (枯山水). Drawing first on the tradition of selecting rocks based on their distinct forms to which meanings like mountain, river, pond, turtle or seabird can be traditionally assigned. A process digitally appropriated and made possible through photogrammetry. Further, the act of representation practiced in 枯山水 substituting one material like water, by another like sand, here extended to the simulacra of tangible rock, sand, water into digital mesh.

 

Just like in a true rock garden the viewer is restricted to one curated point of view upon a single perfect state, immortalized.

 

These gardens flourished on the artistic treatment of cyberspace as a non-physical yet highly experiential space we enter into daily. The work quietly questions how we spend our time online. How do we exist here and can we utilize this space in different forms than we currently do?

 

In their visual manifestation the gardens represent states of mind. Foggy mind, filled to the brim. Deep down you’re waiting. Each brings with it an invitation, a closed space for contemplation, to look, to listen, to unwind and be within a private digital garden.