2000, Poznan, Poland.
Project for kinetic outdoor sculpture. Proposed total dimensions: 2200 x 7000 x 7000 cm. Steel, aircraft cable, wind turbines with reduction gears. Model in 1:8 scale.
Propellers are pointed to various directions in relation to the wind. By the system of gears they lift or lower down the particular sides of the form that hangs freely among free poles, so form rotates very slowly around the axis and also moves up and down, left and right within the limited area among the poles. The form is designed for only one spectator who can get inside and experience slow changes of its position against the horizon while the form is suspended among the poles. Actually, direction of constant movement of the form is unpredictable because depends of the wind. Slow motion of the form with a spectator inside is more like a dynamic levitation with the only purpose to give oneself Up to Space and to stop oneself in the Middle of Time.
Project got The Bronze Prize at the 10th International Design Competition in OSAKA, in 2001). In collection of The Japan Design Foundation, Osaka, Japan.
The point is not to disturb the stream of time and space by reckless activity, but to join with it. We should not create forms or situations interfering in Nature, instead we can try to discover her mysteries, as it were, to knock at them. Commonness, fleetingness, kinesis (variability) – these are the most important features of time and space where any element is not more important than any other, the tiniest piece is equally valuable to any other being. Giving sense is only the fact of existence of the Whole, Life, in all its appearances and variations, which is meaningful for the very fact of existence. “The Sky Reaching Hammock” makes possible dynamic meditation, embracing haven and earth, during which the feeling of unity and simultaneously independency from surrounding space joins with the celebration of what means nothing and has no purpose, like for example flowing clouds, the shining sun or falling rain. *5 A slow, simultaneous change in time-and-space is meant to create the state of timelessness (giving oneself to time and space without a priori accepted intention; everything is of the same value) *6, “resetting consciousness” whose vectors are directed towards feeling of space, spreading from inside of our body into infinity and vice versa. Our “positioning” in real space thanks to the wind, a phenomenon of nature, gives dimension our action towards Her. *7. Nature factually and symbolically directs us towards herself so that we could discover that may have been experienced by primal man wandering through the boundless spaces of Africa, Eurasia or America. *8 In this case the purpose of this “zero state” is putting aside for a moment the culture equipment in order to refresh the mind as it happens in every free change of consciousness. “Timelessness”, psychological appropriating the whole world, feeling of endless becoming is the result of influence on us of every eminent artwork. In this project, mentioning the category of timelessness has more direct reference because the module in which the passenger is placed indeed is suspended in the middle of time” and “space”, and this is not only a psychological feeling of the person taking part in the event. Important is the factor of lack of control, at least momentary one, over intensity and direction of changes, in which will be directed the “crew module”.
Adam Kalinowski
2000, Poznan, Poland.
Project for kinetic outdoor sculpture. Proposed total dimensions: 2200 x 7000 x 7000 cm. Steel, aircraft cable, wind turbines with reduction gears. Model in 1:8 scale.
Propellers are pointed to various directions in relation to the wind. By the system of gears they lift or lower down the particular sides of the form that hangs freely among free poles, so form rotates very slowly around the axis and also moves up and down, left and right within the limited area among the poles. The form is designed for only one spectator who can get inside and experience slow changes of its position against the horizon while the form is suspended among the poles. Actually, direction of constant movement of the form is unpredictable because depends of the wind. Slow motion of the form with a spectator inside is more like a dynamic levitation with the only purpose to give oneself Up to Space and to stop oneself in the Middle of Time.
Project got The Bronze Prize at the 10th International Design Competition in OSAKA, in 2001). In collection of The Japan Design Foundation, Osaka, Japan.
The point is not to disturb the stream of time and space by reckless activity, but to join with it. We should not create forms or situations interfering in Nature, instead we can try to discover her mysteries, as it were, to knock at them. Commonness, fleetingness, kinesis (variability) – these are the most important features of time and space where any element is not more important than any other, the tiniest piece is equally valuable to any other being. Giving sense is only the fact of existence of the Whole, Life, in all its appearances and variations, which is meaningful for the very fact of existence. “The Sky Reaching Hammock” makes possible dynamic meditation, embracing haven and earth, during which the feeling of unity and simultaneously independency from surrounding space joins with the celebration of what means nothing and has no purpose, like for example flowing clouds, the shining sun or falling rain. *5 A slow, simultaneous change in time-and-space is meant to create the state of timelessness (giving oneself to time and space without a priori accepted intention; everything is of the same value) *6, “resetting consciousness” whose vectors are directed towards feeling of space, spreading from inside of our body into infinity and vice versa. Our “positioning” in real space thanks to the wind, a phenomenon of nature, gives dimension our action towards Her. *7. Nature factually and symbolically directs us towards herself so that we could discover that may have been experienced by primal man wandering through the boundless spaces of Africa, Eurasia or America. *8 In this case the purpose of this “zero state” is putting aside for a moment the culture equipment in order to refresh the mind as it happens in every free change of consciousness. “Timelessness”, psychological appropriating the whole world, feeling of endless becoming is the result of influence on us of every eminent artwork. In this project, mentioning the category of timelessness has more direct reference because the module in which the passenger is placed indeed is suspended in the middle of time” and “space”, and this is not only a psychological feeling of the person taking part in the event. Important is the factor of lack of control, at least momentary one, over intensity and direction of changes, in which will be directed the “crew module”.
Adam Kalinowski