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Istanbul Archeology Museum Facade Poetry: All Belongs to Time

14 October 2022


The facade mapping experience is created for the opening night of the Ancient Futures Exhibition at the Istanbul Archeology Museum.


The Facade Mapping Artwork that the visitors see upon arrival. This is a looped ambient mode + ambient soundscape and stays ON before and after the 4-minute mapping & serves as the beginning and the ending sequence of the animation.


POETRY TEXT:


Ancient pasts

Ancient futures

Gods and goddesses

People in the sky

Places on earth

All of humanity

All belongs to time


EVERYTHING BELONGS TO TIME

ALL IS PROTECTED BY TIME


STORY:


HERE RESIDES ALL THE GODS& GODDESSES OF MYTHOLOGY - THE MUSEUM IS A SACRED PLACE UNDER THEIR PROTECTION


Chapter 1:

A gate opens

The architectural Structure of the Building is visible and comes alive - a glittering flow begins to highlight the building architecture a light portal forms around and shines through center facade columns getting more intense and dense - the talisman (ottoman Turkish mark on the facade) is activated becomes gold shining light *creates an ALTAR into another dimension


Chapter 2:

Exploding Light into Constellations

The portal of golden beams explodes into a vast connected constellation. The Constellations inherit many lost languages and mathematical equations regarding Cosmology + Astronomy - they show us all the galaxies, and deities that take their names from the sky.


Chapter 3:

Thunder and Gods come down

The constellation threads start colliding and interacting with each other creating more and more friction - the constellations turns into a stormy colorful sky - the thunder b



STYLE:


Chapter 1:

A gate opens

Thin Line-work, Etching Style, Intricate Wind-like, Liquid Feeling (flowing through the Architecture), intricate and complex, The lines could be thought of as snakes - or like Mercury trying to come together like magnets.


Chapter 2:

Exploding Light into Constellations

Alien Language, Mathematical-like scriptures coming down Vertically Exploding Star, Golden Halo, Orbits, Drifting Particles, Gravitational Fields, constellations showing, and forming *serene moment


Chapter 3:

Thunder and Gods come down


Thunder focused on center facade, *climax moment, skies forming

Figurative Forms, ancient cities, ancient civilications,

Gods and Goddess of Mount Olympus





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