8000 Years Spring, 8000 Years Autumn
I-Ching Hexagram Codex Installation
Ihara Ludens Gallery, New York
THUS, WORK WAS BORN
Thus, this work cames to this life. It’s a change hexagram. With it's green for spring, red to summer and/or purple to autumn. With it's 6 inch to 6 hours, 12 inches to 12 hours, evidence of markings. The choice of period, time, life with one, ten, hundreds, thousands, millions, trillions,... of others. With creator's tossing 3 coins to meet with face or reverse. The combination of chance, choice or change hexagrams. The now is that we are 1 of 64 combinations, while Kariya's footnote of "the now is" writings.
CODEX OF TIME AND PERIOD
The pieces are stacked on the wall in six rows. The stacks vary in height, and most of the wood is tint-ed green (for spring) or red and purple (for autumn). Most also are marked with a simulated script that represents Kariya’s “is the now” sutra.
The visual effect of the wall array is something like an abstract codex or calendar. One recognizes it as a record of time passed, but it also alludes to the rhythmic cadence of language. Because sutra writing
is abstract-it vaguely resembles Arabic or Persian, it
communicates metaphorically, but its incantatory purpose is clear.
Edward J. Sozanski, Philadelphia Inquirer, 3.18. 1990
ICA Philadelphia, 1990
