HG001

HG001 is conceived as a shamanic mirror, a portal towards ones self.

Using elementary geometric shapes – circles, rectangles and triangles – HG001 takes inspiration from the American minimalism tradition and its purification of the gaze. There is no attempt to represent an outside reality. This purification of the gaze brings the observation inwards.

The higly textured black bronze circle reflects the idea of an inner materiality made through the layers of the life experiences. Like layed stratum, the velvet craters are metaphor of the shadows of the soul, its pain and sufferings. Nested in the middle, the golden gate opens to the viewer to the light that lays within.

The triangle base, cut out of a lava stone from Letusan Gunung Volcano (Karangasem – Bali), acts as an anchor to the ground. Traditionnally used to build the balinese temple, its spiritual quality is reinforced by a firing process that turns the stone into Obsidian. Alchemised at 3000°F, the stone returns to lava, then completes its transformation to Obsidian as it cools. This mineral, in between stone and glass, conveys strentgh and grounding properties and is used by shamans as a mirror to read the future and observe personal truth. Carved and burned, the lava stone becomes an « ancient relic » transmitting a piece of code coming from the future.

Combined , triangle and circle embody the duality of grounding and elevation. In between past and future, light and dark, fragility and strentgh, HG001 is conceived as a gateway toward the self. A mirror reflecting one's shadows. It is only when we are willing to face our shadows that we can find the light within.