Mariko HORI
route seventh hill
installation / found objects, acrylic on map, pendulum
performed by snails named after an asteroid and a star cluster / 2018
This alternative route seven is led by agent No.3860 and Pleiades whose slow movementmake the pendulum swing.The slow rhythm of pendulum passing through the time will suggest the audience to the imaginative ancient city of the seven hills.
1. fragments of the streets : ambience of the Seventh hill which was destroyed and its
stone used to pave many of the city’s streets.
2. objects from the old city : atmospheric feeling of ancient which consists of strong
sense of enduring existence
3. pinholes on the map : each stop of the longest bus line in Plovdiv ( route 7)
4. the other side of the map : ancient light of stars which finally reached us after
thousands of years
5. swinging pendulum : passage of time
6. snails : the spiral or cycle of time, the universe
7. Pleiades : the hills of Plovdiv naturally situated in the general layout
of the 7 stars and represent the heaven
* each object may unfold meaning but do not necessarily have to be descriptive only but also imaginative and personal
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