4D Spheres
What can you say, about the 4D Sphere?
The clue is in the title. Unlike a painting, it doesnt have a frame.
Your 3D mind is the frame.
How well it sits there is for you to see and enjoy.
There is a series of three Bronze versions at one metre diameter.
This piece took years from inspiration to arrival
From a line drawing seen in a book lent by a friend
Half an idea I couldn't reach, yet
Perseverance or bloody-minded, obsessed even
Just letting it be there, a wedged stone
Try pushing, now pulling, nothing
Try leaving alone, go up to the north of Scotland
Get distracted, get married, learn woodworking
Survival in a market, and make the first model in wood
Sea Sky Bronze 4D Sphere, 1 metre diameter Enquire
'How' it was made is a story of a thousand steps
None obvious till afterwards to make something
Not yet seen, to have the mental space free,
To trust, by trusting. There seems no other way
Clearing space from the clutter, preparing oneself:
Stopping the daily fill of other voices and images,
All offering direction, instruction, inspiration,
But just filling up my own natural wonder:
Be yourself, undistracted, trust yourself
Clouds Bronze 4D Sphere, 1 metre diameter Enquire
This is the series of three
The first is Sea Sky, the blurring of horizon that denotes our earth bound vista,
A blue green blend patination
The second is Clouds, the clarity behind our obscuring thought stream,
Patination of mottled white
The third is Cosmos, 'whatever you think its more than that, more than that’,
Patination shows a distant nebula within a starry exterior
The fourth is not yet done, 'Ephemeral, as the last morning star’,
Buddha’s moment of awakening. Patination to be before sunrise
In each there is an absence to be discovered, echoing the form itself
Cosmos Bronze 4D Sphere, 1 metre diameter Enquire
So many artists say they are inspired by nature
Perhaps for them it is finding space enough, to breathe and bathe alone
In a forest, by the sea, up a mountain: trivia evaporates
Ideas can arise where there is space for them.
Sometimes that takes all day to clear the mind,
Just being with waiting, and doing nothing,
Following that nothing, down to it's 'nothing is happening' core
Ultimately until not even you is happening
When you are not, not asking, everything is as it is.
Step into the sunlit clearing, or as clouds part over the sea
A still moment, and a glimpse happens
Not easy or difficult but spontaneously
Something the mind cannot manage...
For sure we want again such a moment free of oneself
As mind tries and tries to be, alone spontaneous natural..
One watches all that too, watches children, animals
Effortlessly following their nature, for whom not knowing
Is the way they are. We wait again, clearing our space again,
Nothing more can be done, it’s not a doing
Interactive 360° video describing the 4D Sphere
Click and drag your mouse to look around the studio and to see Samvado talk.
If viewed on a mobile phone you can use your fingers to look around or physically move the phone around to get a 360° experience.
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