"รู้สึกดี" เสียงรำพึงในใจของดิฉันเมื่อได้เห็นงานของ Neeta Madahar (British, 1966)

งานของเธอ(ผู้หญิง) คนนี้ได้รับแรงบันดาลใจจากธรรมชาติ ..สิ่งที่เราอาจมองข้ามไป เพราะไม่ค่อยได้หยุดพินิจพิเคราะห์ ทั้ง ๆ ที่ทุกสิ่งทุกอย่างในโลกนี้ เมื่อมองให้ลึกซึ้ง ล้วนแต่สวยงาม และเป็นศิลปะจรรโลงใจเราได้ทั้งสิ้น

แม้แต่ใบไม้แห้ง/ลูกยางที่ร่วงหล่น ภายใต้ชื่อภาพ "Falling" จบท้ายด้วย "Landing" ..จู่ ๆ ทำให้ดิฉันได้หวนคิดถึงสัจธรรมของการ "ร่วงหล่น" แต่ในที่สุดก็ "หยุด" และ "กลับคืน" ..ไม่ว่าจะอะไรจะเกิดขึ้นก็อิ่มเอม ทุกท่วงทำนองแห่งการเปลี่ยนแปลงยังคงงดงาม

"For some time I have been thinking about the exploration of personal childhood memories and how the temporal experience of a moment of reverie is compressed or expanded through recollection. Like many as a child, I would collect sycamore or ‘helicopter’ seeds, throw them up in the air and watch with fascination and pleasure at them spiralling down to the ground.

I remember finding the seeds still attached by stalks to tree branches, most often already lying on the ground or if I was lucky, at the right moment I might chance upon a seed twirling naturally down in front of me. Unfortunately, I never observed looking directly upwards to see sycamore seeds spinning down towards me, hoping to feel them brush past my face. I wanted therefore, to construct this experience as a new opportunity for reverie, of being able to enter a fluid, imaginary space where an event unfolds over time and through space specifically for a viewer.

The intrinsic ability of photography to allow one to stare at a slice of time and that a photograph can holds one’s attention to widely differing degrees has great appeal for me. Originally I wanted to create several photographs of seeds at different heights in the air against a range of skies. On further reflection I decided that I also needed to create a piece where the experience of time is controlled by the medium itself, such as film or video, that would then create a dialogue with the temporal experience of the photographs. The body of work, Falling, therefore comprises a video animation of the same title and five photographs.

Falling, like my previous photographic series Sustenance, plays with the notion of ‘natural’ occurrences. Things constantly shift between being plausible or implausible and the artificial/natural divide remains elusive to grasp. The motif of the seed in both bodies of work stands as a marker for the passage of time and its purpose in sustaining life. The title Falling whilst being a literal description of what is happening in the works, is also open to other interpretations. For example, the word is an active term that implies a transition from one state to another. It is a liminal condition full of potential. ‘Falling’ also alludes to a loss of control. Whilst this release into a dreamy, fantasy state can be pleasurable in the moment it can simultaneously induce anxiety about the eventual finality of the experience." - Neeta Madahar

http://www.galerie-poller.com/artists/Madahar/madahar-falling.htm