Strange Unconscious

“Strange Unconscious” deals with the creation of images through visual experience during the practice of meditation, understood as a practice centred on self-knowledge. The project poses post-images arising from impermanence as a method of establishing a link between creation, body, mind and meditation; these grow from the root of what our eyes observe when they see nothing, generating images free from limitations or restrictions. Through a series of drawings the project is developed along two lines: creation from the fear of impermanence, which the grid is treated only as an element that links the post-images amongst themselves, and production from impermanence, in which a series of luminous representations of the post-images merge amongst themselves to constantly create a new image.

After the Unconscious

If you do yoga, you must always be relaxed, right? Have you lost weight since you started doing it? But, isn’t it really hippie? They do yoga in my gym! If you’re an atheist…why do you practice a sport based on Hindu religion? Can you show me where you go? I’ll try a yoga video one of these days. Do you have a picture of yourself doing yoga? Show me how to do an inverted pose! Does it help you to disconnect? If you want to be a real yogi you have to go to India, right? Is yoga going to be of any use in your career? If you do yoga you’re not supposed to eat meat, right? You must be really motivated by all those photos on Instagram!

A designer needs to present an appearance as someone who has things under control, although she may feel quite the opposite. As a consequence, a designer needs to create a self that is disconnected from the essence of her personality, who will act in a concrete manner, self-imposed unconsciously. Is meditation a way of leaving behind the predetermined, designed self?

“Strange unconscious” reflects the attitudes that are often voiced around yoga and how, after observing various reactions, I decided to present a real image of yoga, the one from India, not the one from Youtube or Instagram.

How can you connect a group of people, beyond a social network? How can we bypass the modified image of the yogi so as to understand that yoga doesn’t mean showing off?

The yoga that originated in India, which is about inner searching and meditation, is losing ground every day to the more physical manifestation: the asanas. We wanted to step beyond meditation so as to visibilize yoga as a creative act, highlighting the search for connection with oneself.