SEEDS and the development of an ALTAR PIECE
(This is work in progress that brings together a number of different participants from the meeting in Lyon)
The idea of seeds relates to a larger work on the multiple meanings of an altar and the yearning that is implied in the space of mediation, sacrifice and offering that it represents. The element of "the seed" and "seeds" in general speaks to the much broader aspect of possibilities and potential that is housed in this encasing. It suggests further that the seed also while having potential can only be activated under favorable conditions; circumstances that are conducive to its ability to come to that potential. The aim is to also create an interactive space that can serve as an altar where participants will be invited to post their own personal yearnings and this in turn becomes the source material and archive from which the final completed piece of altars will be produced. In this respect the interactive environment is the seed that has to be activated.
Jyoti Mistry