by Simon Alexander Cook

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Brahmarina_menorama_24/7 daytime

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Brahmarina_menorama 24/7 is a branched vascular structure, an invitation to dance with swans, to explore the attraction and repulsion of oil and water. While furthering design of calligraphic inspired forms this habitat friendly construct infers the two-way movement of both nutrient and pollutant with imagined choreography of water-birds arriving and leaving their ‘marina’. The ‘menorah’ candlestick symbol is in one sense a metaphoric multi-jet ‘exhaust’ for fossil-fuel with the super-charged consumption of hydro-carbon burning 24/7 instead of original holy olive oil. Yet in another sense the formalist tree structure is an acknowledgement of the source of divine order, truth and mercy fulfilled in Christ rising from the ‘root of Jesse’. Simultaneous capture and distribution of natural harmony and discordant pressures by the vascular ‘dance of life’ tree can also reference a Sanskrit symbol of Brahman as 7 swans, from the verb root brh, etymologically meaning “that which grows”. The work in light pipe, reads as the inverse of script marking a page, as a pure 3D tag, a ‘drawing’ or calling card, a pipe-organ like instrument, a holy-relic and pleasure-craft. When installed on water the work is animated by wind, the sedges act to filter and invite bird nesting, and is torch-lit by 7 solar-power headlights. (Common name: ‘Eu de Toilette Darque Swan with Plumbers Quack’)

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