ANTARA FIELDS

Ephemeral Geometries and Elemental Dialogues in Terrestrial-Celestial Intersections

This land art installation, spanning a 108-square-foot circumference, serves as a meditation on the intersection of the terrestrial and the celestial. Rooted in the ritualistic alignment of natural elements with cardinal directions, this piece is an intricate alchemy of adobe, frozen water, fire pyres, and sacred geometry. The 15 by 7.2-foot earth altar, meticulously crafted from river mud, encircled a copper bowl filled with water from the Rio Grande, a symbolic vessel of life and reflection. The installation’s architecture, anchored in earth yet gesturing toward the heavens, sought to harmonize the masculine and feminine forces under the auspices of the full moon and lunar eclipse.

This ephemeral work not only embraced the natural rhythms of the cosmos but actively engaged the participants in a multisensory dialogue with the elements. Fire, earth, water, and air converged with communal chanting. The installation’s physicality, though grand in its moment of presence, was designed to return to the land itself, embodying the cyclical nature of creation and dissolution. In doing so, the work invoked the ancient principle of impermanence—an acknowledgment of our fleeting existence, yet a celebration of our capacity to bridge the cosmic and the earthly.

The work’s circumference, echoing the ancient significant of number 108, reverberated with symbolic significance, mirroring the geometries of celestial spheres and sacred cycles. Its temporal nature became a poignant statement on the impermanence of all forms, human and divine, while simultaneously offering a momentary portal between the worlds of animate and inanimate. Through its dissolution back into the earth, the installation honored the cyclical renewal of nature and invited contemplation on our own responsibility to sustain and nurture the planetary and cosmic lineage we inhabit.