Jahanshah Javid

you're welcome, JJ, vali LOL!

It's just an interpretation, quite probably just fundamental...There must have been metres of an artist's explanation there somewhere? (bi khial, espAgnioli ham saro ham mikonim)*

Thanks, I see then, that chronometre is definitely just a symbol of time (and space etc.) 

P.S. Galileo, who suffered greatly in his quests - his actual finger is in a pickled jar, not buried with his body. Great "up yours"!

*I myself like to "appreciate" art things, by examining my responses and , after that, get curious about what was meant. Makes it more fun and liberal and liberating.

Thanks

Thanks so much TL. Makes much more sense now.

By the way there was only one turntable making ticking sound.

begam ya nagam? minisho migam

white round platform = universe

chronometre ticking sound = universe

planets, different shapes on different size record players = axis in space and time

wires, plugged into different holes = interconnections, sometimes appearing as 'random'. energy

record player =energy, planets, sound ripples into spirals into themselves,

etc.

 P.S. Can't hear or see enough to judge. E.g. did the other rotating planets make a sound?

Dear Nazy Kaviani

Thank you for sharing your thoughts. It is nice to have a blog that is not the usual "bomb or not" debate :-) I agree with the ideals of your son. In my opinion it is possible to have best of both.

A system like we used to have in America. With states being given a bit more independence to set their own policies. But people allowed to freely move between them. We had a pretty good system. It was too much deregulation that broke it. Banks were limited to a state. Regulations prevented "spill over" of financial problems. People were allowed to move with no hindrance. Deregulation allowed too much financial irregularities and the mess we got.

A global system of such nature will be possible. Europe tried it and the cultural part worked out. But they mismanaged the financial part.The trick is to get the freedom for people but regulate corporations. Specially the big financial ones. Again I am not worried about ruin of cultural diversity. It is power of corporations that worry me. They will buy politicians and impose their will on vast population. If that is managed the rest will be fine or at least that is what I believe.

Dear Veiled One

My son's thinking, and the reason it has touched me, is that eventually there will be no borders which would invite discrimination against people for their race or geographic location of birth. You would agree that an individual's life would be a lot easier if he or she is born in a developed country versus being born in a deprived and under-developed one.

As the world gets smaller and people get more and more mobile, there will come a day when no people will be walled in to single-handedly deal with malnourishment, disease, illiteracy, and tyranny.

I will keep on dreaming here for a bit longer to address your specific concern and one that I have myself.

Certainly, in a unified world that will have millions of citizens in it, there will need to be some kind of infrastructural land and resource division that would delineate provinces or larger divisions, but divisions that would only exist to make it easy to provide services, not to imprison people and harm them or keep them from growth. I believe/hope that this will happen many years from now, when we as the human race have learned that wars, greed, and tyranny are not the way to a better future. In that case there will be no need to isolate trouble spots in order to keep the maladies of greed and oppression in one corner of the world.

The thing that I worry about is how to achieve this without sacrificing our rich human culture in which we have built and preserved our different languages, culture, customs, arts, and history. Anyhow, it is sweet to dream about it, but in order to lay the foundation for this, starting today, everyone has to take responsibility for the round planet and the human life within.

Jahanshah, thank you for offering a different and interesting topic to ponder. Hoselam sar rafteh bood!

Jahanshah, that is what I was looking for

some kind of higher level meaning to this artwork. I like your explanation, and why display looks messy with all wires. May be it is because Globalization is messy.

globalization?

Now that countries and borders... have been brought up I'm wondering if Flemming is making a commentary on globalization with old record players going round and round. Maybe talk of the earth being round has become a tired noise from the past, hoping new ideas to emerge?

Dear Nazy Kaviani

I am not sure it is a good idea for borders to vanish. I am an engineer and we have a concept of "fault containment". Basically when a part of a system breaks we want to "contain" it. Borders serve that.

Recent globalization shows dangers of unification. Before when banks were small and limited a breakdown in one was not a big deal. Now with globalization a default in Greece threatens all of EU. And possibly the world economy, Mind you Greece has about 11 million people about 10% more than Los Angeles. However now it is able to take down the whole of the globe. There are things like pollution control that require global rules but other things are best done on a local basis.

Of course I agree we are all human beings and should abandon tribalism. However I strongly want to retain boundaries. That does not mean we are not allowed to move. Just like we used to in America people were able to move but states have boundaries. Now with no boundaries nothing holds damage when something goes wrong.

Thanks Jahanshah but i got that much

I got that much that it is about earth is round but beyond that, for instance, what is with the abundance of wires? At my home, when I had the computer and there were too many wires on floor (now I have made it look better :), I thought people will see it and think that it looks messy but if I show that in the museum, does it become clever that I have so many wires running around? I mean that i get the basic principle of it but is there a significance to each and every element of display or many are there to make it visually more interesting without having any scientific correspondence? Jahanshah, you don't have to respond, it is just the type of questions that sometimes i have when I see art displays that there most be some hidden meaning to each and every element that I am missing some.

round and round

Anahid, it's basically a clever, powerful play on Galilei's discovery that that the earth is round.

Problem with art or me?

It looks great and I get parts of it but I have to admit that I don't understand parts of this display. Do you guys do? If you do, exlplain to me.Please if you know because you read a caption about what it means, mention this too so I don't feel stupid.

Cooool!

I thank Galileo for teaching us that the earth is round. I thank technology for teaching us that it is also small. I thank my son for teaching me a few years ago that at this rate, some day, borders, tribes, countries, races, and nations will no longer exist as they did once upon a time, making us all the same, simply human beings.