DISAPPEARANCE OF MATTER
Exhibition Duffle Bag Full of Dreams,Installation, clay, frozen sea water, writing
52.071758, 4.309570, Den Haag, 2022
Casket, made out of unfired clay, with frozen sea water inside, which is not meant for human being, but it is being itself as is frozen sea water.
When clay is not fired but dried, potential that exists within material is present. It considers possibilities that exists within the form of being – and no existence is inevitable from passing time – ephemeral – disappearance.
By disappearance, referring to death of physical matter and by physical matter, I mean everything that has ability to change its form – be active in time. In this case, frozen sea water melts due to temperature difference and clay can still break since it hasn’t gone through process of firing. However, clay is dependent on reaction of melting in order to dissolve and return to its original substance as ice is dependent on temperature in order to melt. Therefore, I preferer to call this moment as moment of disappearance because materials don’t experience death of their matter but rather return to their original substance.
As a result of process - where both existences changed its form - it no longer possesses the same shape, the substance has been changed and it is not possible to return it back to it but the memory on the moment before transformation is lasting in particles of material. If we see disappearance as the end of material, it can be perceived as death of physical matter but if we consider it as part of the process – rather than result, it can be seen as one moment in time, as part of notion of time for cause and reason that puts base for creation.
