Query: how to combine belief that the world is to a great extent illusory with belief that it is nonetheless essential to improve the illusion?
Aldous Huxley, Eyeless in Gaza (1936)
Installation view, West Space 2009
Photograph: Stefan Bagnoli
Exhibited at the artist run space West Space in Melbourne, On the field of Truth, on the battlefield of life (II) is the second instalment in my ongoing project of interpretation and reflection from reading the Bhagavadgita. This particular study draws heavily on Huxley's Eyeless in Gaza, and specifically the central protagonist's journal entries of 1934, writings which illustrate one man's search for meaning in life and the quest for real liberty. In the interplay of these two texts and at the crossroads of the self I heard echoes of Arjuna's beseech to Krishna; 'Ah! Yet again recount...'
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Detail
paper mache, acrylic, glue, cotton thread, hair
Photograph: John Brash
Detail
paper mache, acrylic, glue, cotton thread, hair
Photograph: John Brash
Installation View
paper mache, acrylic, glue, cotton thread, hair
Photograph: John Brash
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