Heaven and Earth by Fatima Lasay
Heaven and Earth by Fatima Lasay
Heaven and Earth, 2001 (© Fatima Lasay) |
| The works composing Heaven and Earth (2001) are "birth" charts of earthquakes in Maguindanao. I see the astrological aspect of the work as a systematized science of plotting positions of the planets at a particular time and place. Along with the birth charts, the fish is an important image in the work, as in the Maguindanao mythology, earthquake is believed to be the result of the movement of a huge fish called "limbo" that lives beneath the earth. I see the work as an exploration towards depicting earthquake occurrences in terms of sky "geography" and making comparisons to see if a "biological clock" relationship exists between the two. Thus, instead of the heavens as the determinants, the occurrences are suited to the heavens---as in humans, hereditary characteristics are more marked in a person whose birth sky corresponds to that of his/her parents. My assumption is that earthquakes are woven together along their own "biological clocks." See http://www.fineartforum.org/Gallery/2001/geocentricity/lasay (© Fatima Lasay) Fatima Lasay Faculty of Studio Arts College of Fine Arts University of the Philippines Diliman Quezon City 1101 Philippines E-mail: fats@up.edu.ph |
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