I LONG FOR SOMETHING SACRED - An abstract, self-reflective art piece about transcendence and purpose. It is a freestanding, mirrored stainless steel object with a white acrylic paint splash at the back. The sculpture consists of two separate parts placed side by side. One could say it is shaped like an abstract church, representing a new kind of modern piety.
Height 240 cm, width 180 cm, depth 80 cm, weight approximately 50 kg.
The sharpness of I LONG FOR SOMETHING SACRED seems to pierce through its surrounding space, cutting through everyday life, and breaking ordinary boundaries. It points the spectator the way to deliverance, purposeful self-actualisation, and the sacredness of self-transcendence.
The work I LONG FOR SOMETHING SACRED is subtly combining the top of Maslow’s psychological needs, motivations, and self-actualisation pyramid with religion, and an increasing need for purpose and elevation in an assumed, superficial society.
The art piece tells the spectator, consciously or subliminally through associations, that the road to the top is not reached softly and comfortably, for an impending and efficacious sharpness, points to one’s goal.
In addition to a perfect frontside, I LONG FOR SOMETHING SACRED, has a more imperfect backside. The frontside of the abstract sculpture is without paint spots, and shows perfect, reflective mirroring sophistication, like the spectator’s clear untroubled vision, and society’s need for perfection.
While at the backside, one’s inner side, at its highest point, the sculpture has a white acrylic paint splash. The proof of a most personal, freeing, soulful ejaculation - the elevation of one’s spirit.
The spectator can see the presence of white paint dripping at the back of the art piece. The spiritual release, or sacred climax, which symbolises purity, and reaching a higher state of consciousness.
I LONG FOR SOMETHING SACRED indirectly refers to the most freeing and enlightening experience, creating an extreme high, and allowing the conscience to rise through one’s top chakra pursuant to Tantra philosophy by which energy is used to enter high levels of self-consciousness. This Eastern philosophy, as well as religion and its churches, and Maslow’s psychological analysis, all are pointing towards divinity, sacredness, and enlightenment as the goal to reach.
Of course one may skip the analysis above, and solely perceive the art piece as an brutalist folding screen - no offence taken.
