"Fulcrum" / sculpture

Part 2

Coming out of the workshop in the morning I got the habit of looking at the opposite mountain, to where the point is whitening. If everything is unchanged - then everything is in order. If the cube has not yet been demolished, but it is not visible, then the whole thing is in its surface, the husk of coloring. Then came a more strategic idea in time. The cube has lived a diverse life, periodically changing into ideological or just poppies. Accumulating various revelations in the form of inscriptions and drawings, the cube not only accepted, but gave information to the outer band in the media and word of mouth. The Internet in Kiev was just beginning to spread, the weak speed of modems was dawning. There were no social networks at that time, which is probably why people have not yet lost the habit of communicating by writing texts on walls, doors and other objects.

Thus, three properties of the cube were outlined: a provocateur, communicator, and archiver. If, for example, the cube was pure white, then it was like an accessible 3D notebook for communication. Red naturally provoked people - especially the Christian faith. Several articles have been published, for example, SATAN'S ALTAR AT THE HOLY MOUNTAINS. At the end of this article was the phrase: “Satanic“ altars ”are ready. Whose blood will be shed on them? Dog or human? ” Or at the end of the article “What a devil!” we read: “The Satanist despises the crowd of gray townsfolk, mediocrity, capable of only stupidly absorbing the gum supplied to them by the media. Satanist does not have a sense of herd. He rejects Christian moral principles. He is anti-Christian. ” A legend was also invented when a cube on a pink background was strewn with red hearts. I did not have a newspaper, but in a nutshell it was written like this: “Once upon a time there was a castle, and the princess secretly met her lover on the edge of the mountain from her husband. Once, the prince tracked where his wife was going and saw them kissing and hugging. Then, out of jealousy, he pushed them from the mountain with a run, they fell and crashed. And now a cube of lovers has been set in their memory. ” Etc. Of course, we knew that there was a “public art” in the world, which we had not practiced then, but in our case the object still has completely different interactions and reflections than custom-made formal demonstrations in public places. It is a “romantic magnet,” which to this day spreads all sorts of fables.

To be continued ... >>>

Konovalov I.