‘That all superstition of pagans and heathens should be annihilated is what God wants’ (St Augustine)
The balance of just one item can act as tipping point as I found out when I knocked the piece I was working on off its pedestal and failed to catch it on its way down to smash on the floor.
The head lay in pieces and the idea came to me that the breaking of the work could be part of its resolution
From as far back as idols and statues have been destroyed by those seeking to promote only one god, the broken statue has been paraded as the proof of its own wrongness, so much consistently part of our culture that as a child I thought that they had been created missing heads, limbs rather than parading of mutilation and reduction of the old gods.
As the world reached and passes a critical point in time when action needs to be taken to slow, halt & hopefully reverse the damage we are doing to our planet, we need to look at belief systems and check how we can revise how we live and what we believe in to achieve change
Review from Miyuki Kasahara for online Japanese magazine Curators Station
