Other The Same

6 x 4 x 6 m
metal, plastic, water
2024 Orońsko, PL

 

Not having a permanent shape, at the same time has all of them.
Parallel perfect symbol of the eternal efforts of man trying to shape permanent objects.
The water in question constitutes a kind of “gateway to life” – since there is no life without water, or at least so far scientists have not managed to find evidence of such existence.
Finally – water is also matter and in this work it is its speaker.

Analyzing the evidence of human activity since the beginning of its existence, it is easy to notice that all objects produced by us have undergone a process of partial decomposition.., i.e. returning ..

The hardest stone turns into dust, steel into rust and bone into ashes.
As water into ice and steam, into snow or rain, dust is “reborn” as “rock”.
Since the nature of matter is circulation – a constant process of transformations and returns, often as other the same, one could actually say that we drink the same water as dinosaurs..
“The Other Same” is an attempt to capture the nature of matter in both a literal and metaphorical sense.

Natural matter, i.e. metal and water, have been separated from each other here by artificial matter – a man-made foil, which perfectly metaphorizing our eternal attempts to hold matter in a handful.
The water enclosed in the work will constantly undergo its natural transformations, changing its state of matter, circulating.
Simultaneously, slowly with hindsight, greening and algae will begin to appear, i.e. life emerging from the water.