The Pyramid Project Installation, beside Banaswadi Railway Station in Bengaluru
Marc Lee has built a pyramid for meditation and resting with the help of local people. The pyramid is made of recycled material and completely covered by shiny plastic waste, murmuring in the wind and providing shadow.
Video of the initiation ceremony
Fascination I'm fascinated by the people who live at Janakiraman Layout, behind the Banaswadi Railway Station. The place is full of energy: smell of wood smoke, cowshit, cold mornings, hot chai, laughing eyes, beggars poorly clothed and beggars in suits, colorful saris. what a place it is.
Children at Janakiraman Layout
Inspiration I get inspired by the colorful bags like candy-, shampoo-, salt-, chips-, coffee bags which are hanging in lines in small stores. By collecting the empty bags we are cleaning the ground. By using the empty bag we recycle them. By sewing them onto the pyramid, we are giving it a coat and at the same time it’s getting transformed into something new.
The place were the pyramid stands was full of this bags. Now they are still there in a new form and reflecting the original space in a new way.
Inspirations from hanging bags
Shop seller hidden by bags
Empty bags are everywhere
Really everywhere
Permission
Permission from the railway department
After six times visiting the office
Transport
Wood transport, use horse for lower price
Cleaning
Cleaning the space
Collecting and cleaning the bags
Building the pyramid beside the railway line
Building the pyramid beside the railway line
Hanging up the bags
Finale sewing
Finished!
A pyramid is a very static, stiff and silent object. The hanging bags are moving, vital and murmuring in the wind. This to opposite characteristics coming together, inter-weaving, and something new appears.
Opening and initiation ceremony
Initiation ceremony by Hindu Priest
Hindu Pries covered with bags
Free meal as part of the opening
Free meal as part of the opening
Eating
Not enough plats
Meditation and Yoga It is believed, while meditating in a Pyramid you get most cosmic energy. At the same time it is good place to relax, to find same shadow and to tell stories.
Published: 2009
Realized:
Marc Lee
Special thanks: to Selva Kumar without his support it wouldn't have been possible to all the helping people from Janakiraman Layout to Mangala and VJ for the final 'spurt' support
Press: Deccan Herald
Flyer: pyramid_flyer_front_print.pdfpyramid_flyer_back_print.pdf
Location: Banaswadi Railway Station
Supported by: Marc Lee was awarded a grant by the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia to take part in the Artist Residency Program BAR1 in Bangalore for a period of six months.
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