Scottish National Gallery
The Divine Sky – Sekai Machache
Sekai Machaches’ work focuses on the notion of self, her work looks at how we can disseminate symbolic imagery while also considering spirituality and imagination. The project The Divine Sky addresses a different and unique way of working, layering and overlaying. Machache uses the process of inscribing and re-inscribing while drawing with ink on to paper and indigo pigment on fabric, this all leads to the creation of a performance to the camera. The work is to do with thought and how we inscribe.
The artist places herself in the Scottish wetland in a bright blue robe incepting the horizon line between land and sky. The figure shown in her work carries a blue vase almost ceremonially, this and the use of blue references to China during the Tang Dynasty which has since been circulated widely in the west to create knock offs that we now see in homes. The use of objects and fabric in her work inspired me to use fabric with liquid light and transform plain fabric into an interesting piece that the audience would be able to feel.
The film we view in exhibition sends us in a different direction to that of the images, the narrative sends us along a storyline of a repair to the environment. The project appeals in sensory format as well as emotional terms, transporting us to a dream like vison where beauty and calmness exist.