Finally, my work-in-progress Orbit has taken shapes. I have set myself to use meditation on creating it. The result of the meditation has gone beyond my body. By meditating, one is emptying oneself to allow ..something.. to flow in.  

The black box space of the Theatre Space at Victoria University FN Campus gives nothing away. As the room is painted black, it’s a kind of blank canvas of negative space, waiting for artist who use the space to fill in.  

I’ve been in there long enough that two patches of sunlight coming in from the two windows just delighted me.  ...And they move, all the time. I then started to record where these patches of sunlight cast on the theatre floor are. By the time I finished putting the masking tape on one corners, the patch has moved. That’s how dynamic the orbit of the Earth around the Sun is. Yet we barely notice it. But sunlight is so complex that we can’t imitate it by using artificial lights. What can be better to illuminate Orbit than the sunlight?

We’ve had many overcast days in Melbourne.  Even on an overcast day the diffused sunlight that come in the Theatre reflects on the black floor that thinly covered with human oil from the artists who use it.  It gives a sort of glow...

The showing of Orbit will be on Saturday November 13 at Theatre Space, Building N, Victoria University Footscray Nicholson Campus, from 3.30-5pm.

To see footage from two of my studio sessions in the Theatre, click on the images below: Left for movement study "See" and right "Circumduction".