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Dwelling within the Formless Being - a work in three parts. (As part of the exhibition - Computer Spirit)

The work as a whole is a transformative process of reconstructing abstract flow which remolds itself from one form to another. A poetically staged chemical reaction in three parts which speak together as one operation. Each part appears in the state of burning - from solid matter into an aeriel form. The first one Move the Gravity to Zero (nullify the form) beholds the act of a smoke floating from an objekt in to the air. The zero is drawn upon the act as a lightbeam. Part two is the video Change the Particles, a work where the burning state repeats again and again, not in the form of a flame but as a burning sparkle which goes along the line of ignition. The materials used for the act was a alchemical mix of gun powder and dust from sparkler fireworks. Change the Particles was an attempt to awaken a hidden, dormant power within the found object which was transmuted for the artwork. The last part of the work has simply the title 0. Three TV’s show the last part of the nullifying process. One screen is white but for a second a computer cursor appears showing the current position for the user’s interaction within it’s world - only for a second and then vanishing again into empty space (white). The second TV shows the classic old static of the television. Depicting the imagery of no signal (nothingness). The third TV shows how the particles inside the TV flow upward as a smoke created within virtual reality. The last state of the work is the process which fully transforms the matter worked with into an abstract, clean state within it’s own sensual none-matter reality.