ESG The Praying Machine
Sculpture, Spirituality, Abstract geometrical, Sacred / Mythological, Architecture, Landscape, Wood, 180x180x180cm
Inspired by Canadian artist Brion Gysin’s "Dream Machine" as well as the "Rock my Religion" video work by American Artist Dan Graham, this latest project resonates with my seven-year trajectory that relates Rock & Roll with Mysticism entitled MAGICK DANCE.
"ESG The Praying Machine" consists of a mixed media architectural installation that serves as a mobile temple, a reference to the Ark of the Covenant. Suggesting the avant-garde funk-punk 80’s group Emerald, Sapphire and Gold (ESG) as a palette for the 3 three colors of the praying machine, with each one being a reference to the gifts that the Three Kings gave to the new born Jesus Christ.
The relevance of the piece is to reach the audience’s inner spiritual beliefs, whatever these may be. Functioning as a gnostic machine, anyone who uses it and invokes the name of “Liberation” (the actual meaning of the name, Jesus) can satisfy his own need for his own ritual experience.
Attracted by the essentials of music, a turntable playing a 7" vinyl version of the song "My Love For You" by ESG establishes music as the core of the machine and as the mechanism for burning frankincense on top of the device.
The Machine is a systematic omen provider that elevates each one's prayer to the sky. Creating a contemporary ritual of 'Pop Mysticism' as Genesis P. Orridge would have called it, the device is something everyone can relate to, going beyond the borders of culture and religion.
The idea behind The Praying Machine is to move it around in different public spaces, as an invitation for people to take a part in the installation and to establish it also as a performative piece. Embracing people’s own spirituality, moving accordingly with the gnostic vision that says that the human being is divine by nature, but is divided by the illusion of the world.
"ESG The Praying Machine" consists of a mixed media architectural installation that serves as a mobile temple, a reference to the Ark of the Covenant. Suggesting the avant-garde funk-punk 80’s group Emerald, Sapphire and Gold (ESG) as a palette for the 3 three colors of the praying machine, with each one being a reference to the gifts that the Three Kings gave to the new born Jesus Christ.
The relevance of the piece is to reach the audience’s inner spiritual beliefs, whatever these may be. Functioning as a gnostic machine, anyone who uses it and invokes the name of “Liberation” (the actual meaning of the name, Jesus) can satisfy his own need for his own ritual experience.
Attracted by the essentials of music, a turntable playing a 7" vinyl version of the song "My Love For You" by ESG establishes music as the core of the machine and as the mechanism for burning frankincense on top of the device.
The Machine is a systematic omen provider that elevates each one's prayer to the sky. Creating a contemporary ritual of 'Pop Mysticism' as Genesis P. Orridge would have called it, the device is something everyone can relate to, going beyond the borders of culture and religion.
The idea behind The Praying Machine is to move it around in different public spaces, as an invitation for people to take a part in the installation and to establish it also as a performative piece. Embracing people’s own spirituality, moving accordingly with the gnostic vision that says that the human being is divine by nature, but is divided by the illusion of the world.
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