Armored Travel Case for Reformatted Broadcast
In this sculpture the ephemeral and fragile is armored for survival and fitted for travel. The steel casing and straps manifest an object that lives in a defensive posture, ready to deflect blows and escape threats. Inside is a tensioned walnut wood carapace in the form of the 57th Hexagram of the I-Ching which stands for "The Gentle, Penetrating Wind", a softening layer which switches the surface to one where patience and appreciation are implied after harsher defenses are stripped away.
Contact the artist: ctmoraga@gmail.com
Or see the artist’s website: palimpsesteum.com
Width: 10in
Depth: 6in
Clayton Moraga
The Artist
Art decays or is destroyed: I am compelled to explore how the experience of art can be perpetuated through time.
Ideas are as persistent as a shadow cast by smoke: I am haunted by the mystery of this ephemeral existence and the brief flame of consciousness.
Beauty arises from the most unexpected places: I savor the delight of its discovery when sensitized to being in the big here and the long now.
The Art
The act of creation: The exterior is a coalesced idea applied to a catalytic interior that is itself successive submerged layers of manifested concepts.
The action of being: Just as consciousness is formed through the accretion of awareness, thought, and memory; the work becomes an evolving identity through the shifting narrative of appearance and the ongoing evolution of the interior through imagination and fading memory.
Email: ctmoraga@gmail.com
Website: palimpsesteum.com
Instagram: claytonmoraga