THE SEA OF OUR MIND
by Øystein Larssen
The deep ocean as a cultural and symbolic space
With the twirling motion between two opposing currents as a point of departure, we follow one of the protagonists of the oceanic vortices - Carbon. Together with warm water and salt, carbon particles from non-sinking organic materials get caught up in these unpredictable and temporarily closed circular flows and are dragged to the deep ocean, where they follow the underwater channels for hundreds of years. But what happens with it after?
Guided by the notion of magic rather than tectonic, the viewer enters a cosmic world that imagines the life cycle of carbon, at once primordial and post-human. Following the chaotic and diffusive nature of turbulent flow, the particle moves through a space that disintegrates and reconfigurates into different symbolic forms in an attempt to reflect on our past, present, and future.
