BAZ: TIME ZERO (8-31-20) - By MARIANNE NEMS
Channel: Marianne Nems Art
Date: 2020-08-31

BAZ: TIME ZERO

The present is incommensurable. As humans, we are the products of the past, and workers for the future. The Present is something we cannot touch or grasp; it is the ongoing TIME ZERO within which we find ourselves.

BAZ is a large metallic installation made with two parallel side panels that join at the top with a square, open space which connects all areas. This with the perforated patterns in each panel, make way for the wholly present flow of air, water, and light so that these elemental energies may weave themselves betwixt and between the panels and viewers.

Underneath BAZ lies a glass platform upheld by a pyramidal structure. At each corner below BAZ lies a set of transparent stairs that lead toward the centre. 

As we ascend these steps, we’re pulled up toward an engulfing sense of presence. Atop the platform, we find ourselves as far away from BAZ as we are from the ground. To the same degree that we have been lifted up, we are also held below BAZ’ square, open space. We have found ourselves in the open void at BAZ’ centre of gravity. Suspended between past and future, we are immersed in the ongoing TIME ZERO.

We are also tunnelled in by BAZ’ two perforated panels.  Face to face with the perforations, our often racing minds stand still for an instant to embrace the closeness forged by the moving and the unmoving elements around us. It is here that the flow of energies is felt. 

We find ourselves looking through the perforations as though they are windows to the past or to the future. We are at the intersection of time and space, where everything meets and departs. It is here that the main focus of our existence becomes the present.

THE INSTALLATION SCOPE:

The studies to the architecture and the engineering are completed for the large installation overall dimension: H 600 cm x L 9m x D 9m
Two Side Panels Dimensions:
 H 600cm x L380 cm x 10cm Thick

Pyramidal Transparent Stairs Dimensions (twelve steps):
Square base: L 9m x D 9m
Overall Stairs: H 180 cm - Twelve steps in total to reach the platform upheld at height of180cm above the floor.  
Steps: H 15cm x D30 cm - As a pyramidal stairs ascending the steps wrap around the squared area to reach the square platform. 
Platform: L 180 cm x D 180 cm - Centered to the stair base and located at 180 cm High - right underneath the open space above.

Top Open Square Space Dimensions:
Open area: L 3m x D 3m - Horizontally Paralleled to the Platform, located at 540 cm high above the floor.

The "BAZ: TIME ZERO" installation will only need to be cut-out by machinery and to be installed on site. This concept is made to make the flow of the production process easy and fast so "BAZ: TIME ZERO" can be installed anywhere in the world and produced locally.

Here above I have photographed a real model built in a lower scale of 10% of the real structure, which I have placed in the ocean for an amazing real effect emphasize on the flow of energies. The results were unbelievably amazing! I have shot a video which is available on YouTube for your review: 
ALTERNATIVE INSTALLATION:
The same can be done with -safe- false white smoke to emphasize the flow of energies in between the perforations, this would be best if the installation were to be indoors or outdoors where there is no water installation possible.
Marianne Nems
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