A lamp like Aladdin's. Sturdy and heavy on the outside. And inside, a light burns.
We continue our walk from the large farmhouse cupboard. Nothing lasts forever, even though the bookcase sometimes gives that impression. Will we ever get rid of it? We can go in six directions.
As soon as even one of the six lines changes, the image of Keeping Still will fade and a new reality will appear. Which reality? Let a dice decide.
Counting from the bottom, the first line. It was broken and is now changing into an unbroken line.
Nothing happens to the five upper lines, only the very first line, a small part of Keeping Still, changes colour, character and destination. What appears is the hexagram of Beauty: Mountain over Fire.
Give a rock, a building, a wall, a mass, a pile, a heap, a house a different lighting, and reality suddenly looks very different. Cosmetics? Christmas lights? Ritual? A new look? A lick of paint? The next fashion? The eye wants something too. And apparently not unimportant. One of the 64 chapters of the I Ching is devoted to beauty, to ornamentation, decoration, grace and elegance.
Visual artists Nicholas Azidis and Rose Staff were invited from Australia to produce a site specific work that reimagined the Curraghmore estate with lively and colourful designs.
To be continued in ...
