Meditation
Details
- Artist: Rick Silva
- Year: 2014
- Gallery: TRANSFER Gallery
- Dimensions: {'length': '2"', 'height': '40"', 'width': '22.5"'}
- Exhibition: Rick Silva 'Sky Burial'
- Medium: Archival Print on Aluminum
Description
Titled ‘SKY BURIAL’, the exhibition takes as its starting point the Tibetan Buddhist funeral practice in which a body is placed on a mountaintop to be eaten by birds of prey. In lieu of bodies and birds, Silva uses quadcopter drones and digital images to reflect on ritual and ascension in the 21st century.
Using a camera drone, Silva lifts the artist’s submitted image hundreds of feet into the air until it loses contact with the remote and the drones programmed artificial intelligence takes over. Silva records a series of these “sky burials” for 10 artists, selected by the artist from his friends and past collaborators. Silva’s installation of prints and sculpture in the exhibition further explore a world of post military drones and future rituals.