Mariko Mori

The Above world




I am inspired by Mariko Mori's Space ship and it's other worldly calm glow. I like her ascending starcases in the sculptures of Wave UFO and the Dream Temple and her uses of imagery interwoven with materials and construction.


It is called "Wave UFO" and three people can go inside at once and lie down. Then they can see their alpha beta and theta brain waves look like.
Mori says that the piece is ultimately about how we are all connected.













This is the "Dream Temple".
According to the New York Times Style Magazine:

A glass reconstruction of the ancient Buddhist Yumedono Hall of the Horyuji Temple, with three dimensional computer graphisc and virtual sound...
Mori says; "I insisted on using dichroic glass, which has a changing iridescent surface, because it is close to the idea of consciousness, which changes every second, every moment, " In "Dream Temple," a sense of past, present ad future is collapsed. What this removal of boundaries can do for the mind is is as potentilally liberating as another discovery that recently came to light the information that the people of the high Andes who speak Ayamara have a radically different view of time. the Ayamara treats the future as something that has already happeed and the past as something that's ahead.






http://www.eyestorm.com/feature/ED2n_article.asp?article_id=73&artist_id=114

http://telemaquetime.free.fr/Mori.htm

it's like someone existing but without existence,
http://www.orbit.zkm.de/?q=node/191

"Tom Na H-iu" is a place where souls waited to pass onto their next life in ancient Celts lore. The "standing stones" that were built according to these ancient myths inspired Mariko Mori to create a present day monument signaling life and death.
The piece is 3m tall, and made from glass. Mori's Tom Ha H-iu captures the death of stars and indicates its rebirth. This is realized by a computer connected to Super-Kamioka Neutrino Detection Experiment (Super-Kamiokande) that catches the light that stars generate when they die. The piece interacts with the incoming signals to radiate a new ray.