(BE)COMING HIGH - A brutal piece about reaching one’s highest potential.
Abstract mirrored stainless steel freestanding object with a white acrylic paint splash at the back.
Height 240 cm x width 180 cm x depth 80 cm. Sculpture consists of two separate parts placed side by side. Weight in total ca. 50 kg.
The art piece is a self-reflective - on one side smooth mirroring - stainless-steel freestanding object in two parts. One could say it is shaped like an abstract sharp-cut church.
At the backside at its highest point, it has a white acrylic paint splash, as a spiritual ejaculation, symbolising purity and a higher state of being.
With its sharpness the sculpture seems to pierce through its surrounding space, cutting through everyday life and breaking ordinary boundaries to show one the way to deliverance and self-actualisation. The work (BE)COMING HIGH is referring to the top of Maslow’s psychological needs, motivations, and self-actualisation pyramid.
The sculpture is showing one subliminally through associations, that the road to the top is not be reached with softness, there is an efficacious even hurting sharpness pointing to one’s goal.
In addition to a perfect frontside (BE)COMING HIGH also has an imperfect back side. The frontside of the abstract sculpture is without paint spots and shows perfect reflective mirroring sophistication, the spectator’s clear untroubled vision.
While at the back, one’s inner side, there is the presence of the imperfect paint dripping, the unwanted but yet most freeing white ejaculation, like the liberating release of one’s spirit.
(BE)COMING HIGH indirectly refers to the most freeing and enlightening experience, creating an extreme high, and allowing the conscience to rise through one’s top chakra.
It expresses the Tantra philosophy by which energy is used to enter high levels of self-consciousness, and just like a church, all are pointing towards the divine and enlightenment.
(BE)COMING HIGH unites serenity with brutalism, refinement with sharpness, spirituality with sensuality and religion with psychology.
(BE)COMING HIGH by Roos Schneijderberg.
Abstract mirrored stainless steel freestanding object with a white acrylic paint splash at the back.
Height 240 cm x width 180 cm x depth 80 cm.
Sculpture consists of two separate parts placed side by side.
Weight in total ca. 40 kg.