Winter 2019 - TAS. 7 Mona (Part 1)

TAS. 7   Mona (Part 1)

These are just MY interpretations of what I looked at when at the Mona Museum in Hobart, Tasmania. I have no clue if I am right, but does it matter?  I can only show here how my mind works, how scary is that?

Water Drop Words

Message from Water Drops 

A waterfall alongside one wall spelled out random words. About every 2 or 3 seconds a word would fall from the sky. Made out of water, it splashed into oblivion once near the ground. First I thought there was a hidden message, but I believe they used random, computerized words. What does it mean?  Does it matter? It was very neat though.  Everybody gawked at it. 

Sculpture of Clay Blocks

Pixelated, Pointille, Pointillism Statues and Picture

So who said you can only paint in Pointillism? How about this sculpture? Made out of blocks of clay but behind it a more ‘modern' piece of painted art, that gives you a different perspective of ‘simple' rectangles… all kind of different due to the background change only?  I liked it.

Zero

Strange Images, Part 1

Theme of Several Exhibits

A main theme for the exhibitions, when we were at Mona was the Zero Concept. You’ll get a deeper understanding of what each section represents if you read the total article in the link above. One disturbing room was a looped video of some length that showed various aspects of human life in a very, very fast moving show, punctuated by staccato sounds or music?  Some of the pictures shown are disturbing, even though they pass my eyes rapidly, I still get the vibes of ‘wow' no way…   Not sure if the video I made is good enough to show these vibes.

Strange Images, Part 2 

A New Blue

A New Color   

It’s real; it’s a ‘new’ blue.  You might think you have seen this color before but… no; it’s a new blue…

Tic-Toc 

Metronomes

Hard to Look At for Long

Seven metronomes are going off, all at a different rate, creating a cacophony of sounds.   Just walking past those gadgets gave me a headache. I cannot understand how the Museum lady can take this. The room is empty and all one hears is the sound of those metronomes, on one wall is a ‘picture' that makes you blurry eyed looking at it. And yet, here the lady sits, smiling. I asked her if this room does not get on her nerves but she told me: “I like to be here “. Wow, this would drive me insane to sit there for hours on end, just having all those noises in disharmony with a picture that is made to be provocative and deceptively simple. I don’t believe she was part of the exhibition, but this room really ‘hurt' my perceptions.

Depth of field and Shadow   

One View

Looking at Life just a few inches left or right will give you a different perspective. In fact if you move around a bit, you can see totally different things. And if that is combined with light and shadows, then what I see is not what you see. It all depends how and where you stand to see things.

Another View

View Changes As You Move

Cases in point are the following pictures. Just imagine you step a few feet up, down, right or left and you would NOT see what my picture shows.

And if the light spectrum changes, even familiar things get a bit blurry, look maybe ‘wrong?’ but are they?   Blame things that are not the way YOU KNOW THEM, on the light. Or come back a bit later, maybe something has changed.

The End Room

The End Room   

A Machine that Does What?

Somehow all the walks within the museum led to this room. I call it the End Room because it was like a cul-de-sac. There was nothing in the room but those 2 ‘machines’. Even those machines did ‘nothing’ they had no purpose. Just some random parts were put together that might look like something to you, but… they serve no function. The people were all a bit confused. Some did not even realize

they were being led to a dead end. I made an art work of this picture, just showing ‘her' confusion, but the rest of the people just stared at square walls.  I wonder if they got it!  Do YOU?

Lead Bookcase With Glass Shards Spilling Onto the Floor.
 It refers to the Kabbalistic Philosophy of the Shattering and
Displacement of the Original 10 Vessels that
Contained God's Light

Shevirat ha Kelim   (The breaking of the vessels)

I found this kind of appropriate while watching other people in the museum. 

Now that the vessels are broken we live in a different world. Nobody can really put them back again. Before the world was unbroken, there were things in those vessels that gave us the ‘light of God’.

Now all we have left are the vessels of Will, Wisdom and Understanding; whereas before the vessels were broken, we had among other things, Spirituality, Morals, Aesthetics and Material things. 

Some see broken glass and nothing else, but there are meanings behind those displays. 

I am having a good time!