This installation speaks of a universal journey that everything takes towards realizing it’s true nature. Being my first official installation work, there are many synchronicities with this new path I’m walking as an artist. I feel this symbolic representation of footsteps and candles leading down the cold concrete stairwell of the art building, is also easily relatable to other viewers. My intention with this installation was to inspire a remembrance in the viewer of their true nature. I hoped as students rushed by busily thinking of their next step, they would be confronted by deeper questions regarding their journeys. Where is it that we are going, and why? What is it that leads us to do what we do? For whom are we doing it? Is it for our selves, for money, for others, for recognition, or simply for the joy of it? Each must answer these questions for themselves and are free to interpret this installation from their own personal journeys. For me, it is a dedication to the holiest place inside all of those who have shared their wisdom and guided me on this lonely path. It is dedicated to the imprints of light of others, that I take refuge in. It was especially inspired by an encounter with a beloved teacher, who has lit up my path towards love, light and my true nature.
Besides not being able to light the candles inside the building, I thought this piece was a success. I would have liked to install a really long trail throughout the whole building or even outside.
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