one bright pearl - REMNANT 2021
“The entire world of the ten directions is one bright Pearl. What do you do with your understanding?” Dōgen
beach-found limestone - vinegar - sunlight - aragonite
According to Dōgen’s philosophy, to definitively name something and call it by that name is useless and leads to a wrong understanding of what that object or person or concept actually is.
The ONE BRIGHT PEARL works give way to nature and rather than attempting to bend the natural, found material to the artist’s will or impose dominion upon it, it is seen as collaborator.
The sculptures are grown, not made. The artist as much a caretaker as a creator.
Ocean acidification is lowering the aragonite saturation state of seawater and is an often overlooked consequence of humankind's release of carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere from fossil fuel burning.
Aragonite is the irritant around which a Pearl forms. It is the mineral from which Corals and other marine calcifiers build their exoskeleton.
“When aragonite saturation state falls below 3, these organisms become stressed, and when saturation state is less than 1, shells and other aragonite structures begin to dissolve. The predicted pH decrease of approximately 0.3 units during the 21st century would be a greater change than possibly at any time in the last 300 million years.” (source - SOS)
The entire world of the ten directions is one bright Pearl. What do you do with your understanding?
