Emergy
The focus for here is provided by Maria’s ‘Emergy’: Emergy Maria Michails-Posidis Master’s thesis: Harry Wood Gallery The centerpiece of the exhibit is a boat that, through the act of rowing, energizes lights in the enfolding space to illuminate delicate photographic cels. The work directly names the existence of an ephemeral, if not transcendent, aether capacitated within all life around us. The rhythmic work…. of a being alive… metabolizes and enriches that unseen nature around us into visibility. The work suggests our evolution - of a new sensory organ by which we may know the world. With each stroke the space pulses with the evidential glow of life. The work, like a simulacra, reenacts the same vital process that we perform at each breath - the cultivation of life. This respiration evokes awareness, regardless of the artifice, that the world around us is desperately sensitive to all of our actions.
An image that is deeply compelling to me here is that of an individual’s intentional action invigorating connection with a subtle, mostly unseen reality. The metaphor speaks of shamanism, where the spirit world comes intersects more transparently with the ‘normal’ world. Like each step being a prayer upon the earth, or each paddle stroke in the water being invocation for blessed relations, so we may imagine how any action may participate in a structure connectedness.I imagine paddles with script or other patterned consciousness filleting into a subtle grain of the world.
