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Then the buildings crumbled, and suddenly they were cranking away in the desert-what that same land must have looked like before civilization intruded. Fittingly, the set list included the song “Vertigo.” When U2 performed its new single “Atomic City” the band was in front of the throbbing Las Vegas Strip itself, with cars moving on the streets and planes flying in the background. The concert was intended to highlight U2’s full-album performance of its classic Achtung Baby, as well as some other hits.

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The band’s longtime artistic director, Willie Williams, commissioned a series of artists to create virtual environments used to zip everyone through time and space.

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Upheld in that awareness, the air is full of flowers, trees making love again.The Sphere is basically an ultra-high bandwidth conduit for immense streams of digital information, with its own server farm and about 1,000 miles of fiber optic cable. Universe breathes in from you, breathes out you. It declares form is emptiness, emptiness is form, there is nowhere else each could arise from except the other they are the heart of each other.Ī breath comes in, a gap breath goes out, gap. It takes away that mind which holds reality as an idea, – mind the gap. Non – Euclidean geometry pops that bubble, unleashes many forms, and the Heart Sutra from Buddha goes further to disclose that emptiness is not just space, curved or flat, space is still an idea in your mind. This bubble of reality we inhabit conveniently preforms our length breadth width.

This form/formless balance so exact, offers a glimpse beyond the imagined whole sphere, which is only in our mind as we expect, so we see. The delicacy of the bridge across the symmetry, touching or not quite, held up by the arms, holding the circular space lightly, merging to the solid circle below, all hollowed to the absent half, a greater symmetry of form and formless. Various artists have been commissioned or invited to make versions with other materials, ceramic, cast bronze, cast glass, cast silver, steel sheet, woven willow. How much freedom can we cope with? This 4D sphere is a window, a view outwards from our continuity of self insistence, an unframed look, and a let go. If all ideas are relative, what is it to see without ideas, no mind? Perhaps this precious self is only the seedcase of consciousness, and we drift on bigger currents, with no more personal purpose than to meet the ocean. It is the relativity of oneself the net of ideas about oneself, being born and dying, who I am, that constrains us, takes us away from simply being. The insights of Zen have not been surpassed, and being so simple do not depend on intellect or argument but a clear seeing.

We have eaten but not digested relativity. There is no agreed language of form in art because we always meet the limit of relativity ‘that’s just your point of view’ and take the right to share or reject, as neurotic or bland, cash and carry art. In other words it can bring to the same realisation, that all our ideas about everything, including ourselves are just that, ideas that arise and disappear. ‘Emptiness is precisely form and form is precisely emptiness’ says the heart sutra of Buddha. In the world of Zen it is a way to show the significance of emptiness, without which no form is possible. This form has geometry as a neat coalescing of Euclidean and non – Euclidean approaches and at the same time relativises such a point of view.Īs a sculptural object it carries a balance of form and space so satisfying that the 3D form itself is transcended, and the viewer may be led out of the usual subject object categories. pertaining to the way of seeing, prescribed by the mechanism of mind itself, our viewpoint. In the days when Einstein had only just expressed his theories on relativity, with which we are now more familiar, the other ways available to describe non ordinary reality were philosophical, religious, mystical, or occult in the sense of hidden, not obvious: i.e.

Motion in a 4d sphere