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Digital LED counters

Buddhist Philosophy

Multimedia Artist

Life and Death

Time and Space

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Miyajima, T., 2020. Artist's creation and thinking process. PsyCh journal, 9(4), pp.519-523.

Tatsuo, M., 2019. Artist as Disciple: Miyajima Tatsuo and Sōka Gakkai. Journal of Asian Humanities at Kyushu University, p.39.

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Eternity of Life

Death

Function and significance of time and space, within the context of Buddhist thought

Numerical system to represent life and death

Continuous Change

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1. General work in multimedia and digital art

2. Work that concerns primarily  time and space (Three Time Train)

3. Work that concerns primarily life and death (Sky Of Time, Sea of Time)

4. How these concepts link ( Time Train to the Holocaust; time and death)

5. Overarching Buddhist influences (Arrow of Time)

6. Personal view, what I think the intended impact was, influence, how he has impacted other practitioners and how visual aspects portray philosophical concepts.

+ Critical reflection on each paragraph

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Arrow of Time (2016), was created to represent life and death in a cyclical way, contrasting the western thought, which perceives death as the end of life, and time as linear. The work draws from the concept ‘Samsara’ in Buddhism, also known as Metempsychosis which symbolises the eternal nature of life. The concept is portrayed as an installation piece using Counter Gadgets hanging from the ceiling which count from numbers 1 through to 9 during which they are lit up in red, which symbolises life. It then goes dark at 0, meaning ‘death’; the cycle is endless and keeps going. Each counter has a different counting speed reflecting the disparity in the nature of karma (which perpetuates ‘Samsara’) of individuals of different ethnicities, culture, religion and skin colour. The work is presented as though souls are coming down to rebegin their human lives on earth from the universe. Miyajima (Miyajima, 2020) wishes to express the miraculous harmony of life through this piece.

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Sky of Time