Video: Obon - thousands of glowing leaves. Ancestral souls floating on water
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
American artist Miya Ando implemented an amazingly beautiful project in Puerto Rico with the name Obon … In it, she combined the natural beauty of the island with traditional Japanese cultural heritage.
Miya Ando travels a lot around the world, learns the culture and traditions of the countries she visited, and then embodies the knowledge gained in her new works of art. Another work from this American artist appeared recently in Puerto Rico.
The installation by Obon features a thousand artificial leaves made of rubber and coated with a special non-toxic phosphorescent compound, which floated on the surface of the water in a small pond in one of the parks in San Juan.
During daylight hours, these artificial leaves accumulated light so that in the evening, with the onset of darkness, they turn into luminous and then fading floating objects.
The name Obon Miya Ando gave to her work in memory of the eponymous Japanese Buddhist festival, the purpose of which is to honor the memory of ancestors. This event is often called the "Festival of Fire", celebrating the tradition of lighting lanterns, each of which symbolizes the soul of a deceased person who has returned to the world of the living for several days.
Also in the Obon installation, Miya Ando played on an unusual natural phenomenon that can be observed in Puerto Rico - the glow of photosynthetic underwater organisms during the smallest wave of water in the coastal zone. countries and peoples, natural beauty and skill of a modern artist.
Members of the Spanish creative group Luzinterruptus are the world's most renowned artists who regard light as art. And the work of Mia Ando demonstrates that other authors can handle this unstable but delightful material, for which darkness is just a canvas on the basis of which works of stunning beauty appear.
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