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My favorite part of movies is the beginning, where everything is nice and everyone is having a good time.  Once the traditional narrative arc starts to take shape, I know I am going to see another version of the same story.  Exposition, Rising Action, Resolution – etc. etc.  Just like real life.

What do you do about the beetles in your garden?  I just don’t think about them.  It is said that true transformation takes place in the subject, not the object.  The quintessence could be that we never left the garden, we just started to think differently about our relationship to it.

This installation is my version of an ideal movie – it just has a stage but no characters.  The actual movie takes place in the minds and hearts of the viewer.

All of the components of this piece are just trinkets set to trigger memories which the viewer can use to create their own stories through the act of remembering, both backwards and forwards through time (I don’t totally believe that time exists, but let’s save that for another story). 

How far back can we remember? 

What good is a prayer if it isn’t for everyone?

Who among us will be the first to awaken from this vast profound dream? Already, the course of my life is known to me.

Inside my thatched hut I sleep soundly, while outside my window the sun slowly rises…

Each memory is a portal to another time and place, and this altar exists as a bridge between two physical places. This work is presented by and was created for Peter Coffin‘s Sugar Mill Museum of Contemporary Art located in St. James, Jamaica.

Now on limited view in SoHo, NY – DM on instagram @zeljkovision to make an appointment