Soulscape - The Wheel

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SOULSCAPE - Joint Exhibition

Artists Tsagaantsooj and Batchuluun

At the Union of Mongolian Artists' exhibition hall

Artist Tsagaantsooj

Ancient Mongolian Khun Empire—Cloud patterns (nowadays known as Tibetan clouds) are horizontally and vertically floating in the air, inviting the viewer to escape into his soul. Static yet softly rounded tribal patterns somehow speak as living impressions. It is as if the installation is alive and communicates through its repeated, multidimensional moves and intriguing performance.

Yet super calm. Earthed, but also cuts our judgments.

You are freed here.

Her husband, Batchuluun, speaks differently, but their connection is very spiritual. His works are too profound for me to describe or write down.

So, I chose the one that spoke to me the most.

THE WHEEL.

In the compactor machine, which flattens the road, we see letters of F—as if they were human shapes.

These Fs represent Facebook - in general, the social media.

In the wild nature, mountains, rivers, and all the other substances of this rich earth are flattened by a road, represented by this compactor machine. This machine carries the social media as its citizens.

The artist combines the compactor machine with a Tibetan prayer wheel.

It turns, rolls, and continuous. It goes horizontally but turns and repeats. This a WHEEL of life and death.

Why the wheel of life?...

Because we feel the instant, we consider our existence a living form. When something is alive, it moves, makes noises, breathes, evolves, and involutes. If we shake this instant enthusiastically viewing the work, 'The Wheel,' we get an example of sensing the eternally permanent.

Why the wheel of death?

Yet this alive instant is not permanent. It's alive only when we question or become conscious of it. Something prevents us from being permanent. We say it's something or someone—the fault of others. We construct the road unconsciously and collectively in a state of somnambulism. So, the fault goes...?

The Road is written with wisdom. But walk in our way on that road is your path. (Mahayana Buddhist proverb)

Create your path on the road.

It's your WHEEL of life and death.