The World is grey, the mountain’s old

The forge’s fire is ashen-cold.

No harp is wrung, no hammer falls,

The darkness dwells in Durin’s hall.

The shadow lies upon his tomb

In Moria, in Kazad-dûm…”

~J.R.R. Tolkien~


“The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects.

We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous;

but we do not notice it.”

~Charles Baudelaire~


Cities, like dreams - are made of desires and fears; even if the thread of their discourse is secret,

their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else...

~Italo Calvino~

Saturday, June 25, 2011

Wayang Kulit at the Barcelona Pavilion



light, shadow, reflections
it gives a soul to the whole structure 
while defining a blur line 
between the space in the exterior and the interior

at the same time,
it breaks the routine-like, compact, elegant,
linear sight of the space
...

which one is the spectacle?
which one is the spectator?
 the space?
 the enclosures? 
the visitors?

this is a story of a subjective angle
an angle of an objective story
...
of the wayang [shadow]
of
a pavilion
...


spec·ta·cle/ˈspektəkəl/Noun

1. A visually striking performance or display: "the show is pure spectacle".
2. An event or scene regarded in terms of its visual impact: "the spectacle of a city's mass grief"



spec·ta·tor

/ˈspekˌtātər/

Noun: A person who watches at a show, game, or other event.



Wayang is an Indonesian word for theatre (literally "shadow").[1] When the term is used to refer to kinds of puppet theatre, sometimes the puppet itself is referred to as wayang

Music taken from Gamelan Dewaruci part 01 and Denau by Kua Etnika



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