Rivers and Tides working with time with spiritual aspect of life, a film by Andy Goldsworthy, directed by Thomas Reidelsheimer, screened in 2001 and 2003(with sound), It also won Golden Gate Grand Prize for the best documentary at San Fransisco international film festival in the latter year.
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It was first appeared in 2001, but without sound, the above mentioned version of film is, with sound.
From nature to human, everything seems to be similar; in terms of its nature, functioning, constructing, destructing, struggling to find existence and in the process, something new is generated. Which is never occurred in mind or thought of. As a result one encounters with interdependancy like concepts and try to place faith in.
As it is always happening in human life, that one needs some renewal and newness or a particular change in life, when a life for a long time goes on in regular manner. When it happens with nature, it takes its own stand and all changes take place through a specific procedure, associate to a particular natural event/calamities.
[FOR EXAMPLE]
Earthquake: Happens with specific frequency and ends with certain magnitude, from place to place its frequency differs in motion.
Volcano Eruption: It is also based on cause and effect like nature. With the internal ongoing process, that convulsed, attracting and then separating and inevitably outbursting into a new form and a new landscape is generated.
Likewise whirlpool(takes place in water) flood(due to change in weather and river or any form of reservoir)etc.
The same thing can be seen in human's context.
The Old man and the Sea
To realise his existence, Santiago has to go forward to catch the fish, though not able to catch till 84days, but after it is becoming possible. Therefore by striving for his survival, he is getting something, which is actually unimaginable, eventually loosing the pride and hope, but never getting disappointed from life.
Says: "A man can be defeated, but never be destroyed".
To the Light house
Mrs. Caroline Ramsay realise her won existence, through helping her children and shaping their minds and if one can see, unconsciously, it seems to be her cherishing desire, to be known posthumously by the people.
The Wasteland
Cause effect(Sexual perversion &spiritual degradation). Each thing is interwoven and interdependant on each other.
Thus the process is naturally based on interdependancy, either if it is for human or nature.
Brief Introduction to the Original Source
In the original documentary, it is said that "the piece of the work of art should be such, no need to put in museum".
Elaboratively, it can be created, enjoyed, scattered through unimaginable forms and then destroyed. It isn't literally destroyed but found a new plane/world to get in, where it will become more than what it is at present.
For which one may have
Andy Goldsworthy-Documentary: Rivers and Tides
Create something, which doesn't require to put in the museum. The medium that has made it, will destruct it.
Generally one can make a piece of art from anything, what is at hand. The Scottish sculptor has used Icicle, Driftwood, Green iris blade, iron oxide chalk, stone powder and its pieces, Sheep's raw wool(fur),
Who says: "Art is the form of nourishment".
I would like to add something more, it isn't only medium for nourishment, but also responsible to generate newness in human personality. Which is something that takes human passion, involvement and interest of doing something new, with adequate empathy and sensitivity.
Likewise is done by the Scottish Sculptor, named Andy Goldsworthy in the respective film. Where he has emphasised on: "the creation is always destroyed". But not in explicit manner as mentioned above.
[EXAMPLES]
A Driftwood Igloo
Which seems to be protected through various emerged pointed rusty walls, but as the water flows increase, the igloo drops just with a touch of forceful water and is pacing forward with careful steps, though taken care of, the all abided sticks start scattering at unwanted locations but the sculptor philosophies, if it isn't destroyed and sent to an another world, where it will have more scopes of widening its legs than here..
Stone Sheets arrangement
One is required in this creation to arrange, each and every stones appropriately. The gaps, wrongly adjusted with the help of stone or if inadequately tried to fill the gap, the entire structure will crumble down and we have seen in one of the parts of Andy Goldsworthy's Rivers and Tides film.
Insight and the creative mind is must in anything, which can see best in the waste.
[For example]: A string of icicle
It is formed naturally in ringed shape, but at 42-45 angle a piece is missing, the sculptor gets from surroundings the piece and trimming it to the extent, so that it can be situated flexibly in the missing part and it can form the whole ring.
While it is also going to be destroyed as he also indicates the rising sun.
FILM IMPRESSIONS
It seems that the nature is providing substance, to build a human personality and it is upto a human how he/she is shaping himself/herself. Nature varies from atmosphere to atmosphere, environment to environment, culture to culture, experience to experience, surroundings to surroundings. If one wants to know the person, he/she only requires to know his/her background, nothingelse. Yes it may happen sometime that when a person is put into/forced to live in such atmosphere, and the very source is the person's preferrence for another person(he/she isn't willing to confine to that atmosphere) then the results are unpredictable. One must hope as such shouldn't happen.
We're not concerned with this aspect of life here. If seeing the very sculptor in the film, he is surrounded with all the natural resources and where he has to see, if he is to create this destroy this and he is creating, unconcerned of if it is going to give anything in return or not and seems to be free minded, unbiased and possess a tremendous faith, which serves the idea of universal humanity's well being.
As it is said: "Creation requires deletion/destruction, then rehabilition and recreation happens".
It isn't literally a destruction, as it seems to be. But a destruction, rebuilding in a new form and representing itself. Likewise the process keep on recurring.
It also suggests that creation, learning, observing, experiencing things are going to be endless, unprecedented, only a humanbeing has to see, how he/she can see, with which point of view and how he/she can utilize for his/her and altogether for the universal welfare and what she/he is suppose to do is, one has to forget, what one has done, after doing.
If we see the very last aspect, this kind of approach is only sustainable and resistible in nature. While in practical approach of life, one has to see, experience and has to improvise as per the nature, he/she is suppose to confront. Because it doesn't work everytime as expected, sometimes it may be mutilated, distorted or labeled as someone else's which actually can't be digested and gulped down, if it is done, it will have haphazardous and unimaginable effects.
Some of the descriptions, I have given but for others imagery, the image of thin fur, adjusted upon various bludgeoned stones, gives an aesthetic feeling of "how a black, rusty, grey, coarsely cemented coloured stones are as it is given a pitch of white, how extra ordinary it is looking, how it is enhancing each other's existence, through contradiction(Derrida: Binary oppositions{black and white}). In such situation only one is realizing how extra ordinary one is. So we may conclude here that some are mere a source of stimulation and we should know how to use and when to use that, not to degrade others(they can also make path on their own) but to better our existence on Earth. So that it will make space for us as well as for others.
How the tides, came from various sides and from all sides, intertwining at one place, flowing with thrush at a particular place. Continuously flowing and flowing, without countenance, and any record of measurement..
How the remnants, in bottom of the sea, called sediments or ironed tiny pieces of stones are assimilated, converted into powder form, and used to make a new reddish colour and as it is one of the sources of food nutrients, it can be seen through literary point of view as a rich sediment that contribute in creating rich iron corpse.
How when the colour of sky suddenly changes in rainbow colour and the rain pours, which seems to be pouring, through different colours.
"How the art of nature is". It is unseen, we only got to know how it is, we don't know how it is made, who is the creator. Generally it is said, "God is the creator". But when we ourselves experience, it seems to be somewhat different as when anything existing in nature is touched by a human, it gives thrilling and sensitive effect and a human is becoming more curious to know, why it is so? He/She indulge himself/herself more in it as it is contributing in shaping him/her and for the nature one can't know. While we see at surface level, then it seems to be based on "doing and reacting" how positively you will respond to it, it will be in similar manner reciprocate you or it would be otherwise. As we are confronting today, the dire consequences of industrialism. With the advent of coronavirus it was said: "That in absence of such humanbeings, animals and nature are free to grow and develop on their own, while until now these weren't allowed to as they were suppressed and exploited with the respective hands of some humanbeings.
Thus the nature and the human tendency is based on interdependancy, act and react, the spirituality and philosophy of nature is something, which one needs to experience by being in nature. The philosophy of nature denotes the working and functioning of nature, regarding it with ethics. While spirituality elaborate on how the positive aspect of nature, when combined with appropriate and amiable nature of humanbeing, contributes in new creation. Which requires the assimilation of both; philosophy as well as spirituality.
Works Cited/References
Goldsworthy, Andy., "A Film Documentary: Rivers and Tides working with time in two parts", Directed by Thomas Reidelsheimer, 2001 &2003.
Hemingway, Ernest., "Novel: the oldman and the sea", 1951-52.
Woolf, Virginia., "Modern Novel: To the lighthouse", 5 May 1927.
Eliot, Thomas, Stearns., "Modern Novel: The Wasteland", 1932.
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