Video: The River of Times and the World Tree: Conceptual Project by Keith Lemli "Nothing and Something"
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The installation master Keith Lemli set himself a difficult task. In his works, he tries to express the inexpressible and show the invisible. A tree surrounded by either luminous annual rings or circles that diverge in the water is a conceptual project of the sculptor, his reflection on life and death, the unification of nature and technology and the elusive run of time.
The future sculptor Keith Lemley grew up in an industrial city and, as a child, saw enough of the proximity of nature (most often frankly stunted) and civilization (mainly represented by the smoking chimneys of factories). Childhood impressions were useful to him in his work. Keith Lemli's reflections on the industrial landscape resulted in the fact that he began to "grow" felled trees in neon "glades" - almost like aluminum cucumbers on a canvas field.
Dead trees, from which only trunks are actually left, bear little resemblance to trees: no leaves, no branches. They look just like city pillars. Wildlife is actually dead, as the author of the conceptual project tells us, and there's nothing to be done about it.
What does the second element of the installation mean - a mysterious neon glade? Or maybe not a clearing at all, but an uninhabited lonely island, falling like ledges into the sea? Or circles in the water, into which an already not very fresh-looking tree is slowly sinking? It is not for nothing that they say: "How did it sink into the water" - maybe this is the fate of nature in the post-industrial era - to sink?
The tree looks like a lamppost - nature is dead. Neon circles resemble water - technology is alive. Everything is confused in the modern world!
The wavy closed lines of the "surf" resemble annual rings. The tree, standing in the center of the diverging circles, is also a symbol of the world tree (the basis of all that exists), immersed in the river of time. This means that Keith Lemli was really able to depict something that cannot be seen - time passing through his fingers.
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