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The Journey in Creatures by God, 2017Waxed wood veneer on plywood.
120x120 cm
Board GameTravel
(The journey in the plurality of the creatures with the consideration that God’s unity penetrates in this plurality, and the observation of how the creatures return to God)
Carrom is traditionally an Indian board game, the traditional design of a carrom board has a compass in the middle where the seeds are arranged to be hit by the striker by flicking it, I have redesigned the board in wood veneer, first to fit within the proportion of the moon (represented by the compass in the centre) to the earth (represented by the whole board); and second, by using maps of the ocean from Piri Reis’s 16th century manuscript ‘Book of Navigation’. In this, he mapped all the places he explored, as well as explaining in a poetic language the knowledge and tools that a sailor needs when he’s in the heart of the ocean.
The game of Carrom requires understanding angles, motion, distance and tactics, things that you need to learn while travelling across seas, a journey that has been used as a symbol for self- discovery in much literature.