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Walsh, Dave
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Spring 2025
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2025
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This thesis explores the intersection of religion, spirituality, quantum theory, and reality in an experiential, multisensory installation that incorporates sculpture, digital art, and sound. Through personal experience and philosophical inquiry, the work recovers ritual as a space of presence and contemplation, and invites the viewer to participate in a moment of sacred encounter. An action at the center–kneeling–becomes a dissolver that deconstructs the border between artwork and observer, recalling the non dualistic structure of the world. Fleeting images and nested sound fields repeat the cosmic pulse of the rhythms, intuited by suggesting that self does not lie with the body but is part of an expanded conscious field. By engaging with mysticism, quantum consciousness, and violence of institutionalized religion, this work creates a new spiritual mythology that respects ambiguity, subjectivity, and poetry in technology. Installation is the altar and threshold, where surrender becomes a mode of knowledge, and presence is holy.
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