ShivaniMathur
Inspiration
One evening, as I walked down my street,
overcome with a feeling of hopelessness
everything in my world had cracked
I happened to
pass by a heap of rubbish where someone had discarded eggshells.
I stopped and stared at it.
One evening, as I walked down my street,
overcome with a feeling of hopelessness
everything in my world had cracked
I happened to
pass by a heap of rubbish where someone had discarded eggshells.
I stopped and stared at it.
Unknown to me at that time,
this was the moment Pathways of light was conceived.
Made with decaying materials: waste eggshell and broken mirror sheets,
In June 2022, Pathways of light hung at Granary square, London.
Won the highly commended 'Maison zero, this earth' award
for sustainability by LVMH.
When I created it, I did not try to repair cracks in the broken materials.
I had been woking with non linear patterns in mathematics in my previous career in financial markets,
And suddenly,
I saw non linear patterns in the environment-
In the way our glaciers have begun melting at an accelerated rate.
I saw non linear patterns in how a mirror cracks-
when heated in an artists workshop,
And I saw non linear patterns in broken eggshells
lying in a dump.
I was excited.
Using heat/vacuum, I accentuated cracks and changed the topology of the mirror till the light entered cracks, bounced off the distorted mirror.
It began to look like a shrine.The cracks were no longer fault lines- they became pathways for light to enter.
For me, this unique experience and the resulting artwork was symbolic of topple old paradigms and bring in fresh ideas, hope and optimism.
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Process
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Three meter sheets of mirror that were damaged and cracked were cut
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The cracked mirror was subject to heat and vacuum to accentuate the cracks. Topology of mirror changes.
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Washing, waste
eggshell |
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Hanging
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The work was in two parts:
a ceiling 1,75X2.25 meters, made with broken mirror
a shrine 33cm , that housed an eggshell sculpture called Humpty Dumpty version 2.0.
As a viewer approached the shrine, this sound began to play
Below is a slideshow of images of the work, as hung, and viewers viewing it.
a ceiling 1,75X2.25 meters, made with broken mirror
a shrine 33cm , that housed an eggshell sculpture called Humpty Dumpty version 2.0.
As a viewer approached the shrine, this sound began to play
Below is a slideshow of images of the work, as hung, and viewers viewing it.
