'MIND HOLDS NO ANSWERS'
'Mind holds no answers' was a very personal project but one that hopefully addressed a much wider issue within the human experience.
The piece took the form of a film installation with dual audios that would be accessed via headphones. The audios were intended to be very dualistic in nature, but would be overlaid upon the same backdrop. Amercing the viewer within two very differing experiences depending on the choice of headphones.
One audio was a chaotic amalgamation of thoughts that would permeate the mind, overlaying the sound of a fast running waterfall, essentially a torrent of thoughts. The second was the same waterfall but slowed considerably and overlaid was audio taken within the woods accompanied by the meditative songs of wild birds.
The piece was an attempt to ambiguously comment on the almost parasitic nature of the mind. If it is left uncontrolled and without some restraint, the continual barrage of collated thoughts, fears, doubts and mislaid beliefs can be extremely overwhelming, which in turn can potentially lead to metal illness or for one to be lost in a torrent of externally acquired beliefs, ideals, thoughts and fears that were never in fact ones own.
It was also my intention to juxtapose the very sleek, white and clean gallery setting, with very organic aspects of nature and the earth, essentially transporting the waterfall to within the gallery space. It was my hope that the piece, even in some small sense, would prompt the viewer to asses the validity and origin of the thoughts that permeate ones own persona, as well as, even for a moment, reconnecting the viewer with the natural world.
