balloon by ljupka bilenjkij from usa

As the answer to the surrounding water - earth - air environment of the nature, the balloon concept was chosen to capture unlimited space around itself. Free form like this requires firm anchor points. Those points are also symbols of human intervention. They give bases to what will be Responses to the Natural surrounding above it that will use Nature's own Energy...

Square pedestal, with it’s repertory of meanings, represents Bases of the archetype Tower, which through it’s Body ends with the Sphere, as it’s own opposite. Body of the Tower spans opposites – heavenly and earthy, limited and infinite, static and dynamic, black and white, night and day…

This bridge between two incompatibles is achieved through dynamic change of form, with the solution that poses dynamic property while transforming from one stage to another. This process is possible by technological solutions of our era, which also control and restrain it. This is where the endless play between opposite poles starts, and constant interchange of authority, friction but compensation is balanced.

Changes of form are embodiments of natural forces that posses it. Under the influence of water tights and wind storms Square releases its static, the platform takes off and sales in to the water and rotates while carried over by dominant currents. Then the functional Body of the Tower erects, and the Sphere fills with the air and lifts up. Balloon takes charge and becomes the main activator of the mechanism. The all-over dynamic and dramatic composition reads current weather conditions – the Temperament of the Nature. As the reflection of power and wildness of Nature, the Tower is in some sense also the warning to man of the future…
Taking over of the clear forms as archetypes, and their new treatment, brings back the old meanings of archetypes of the Tower:
- Eternal human striving to reach the Heaven, are the roots of the Great Tower – The Tower of Babel. With the Balloon it is by its means possible – the air is the goal, the air is the fuel, and the air is the main content of the Sphere.
- The Watchtower - because the reflections of the sphere mirrors the skyline of the surrounding City. So this Tower doesn’t even have to be reached - it gives good view itself!
- The Lighthouse – at night it becomes lighting feature absorbing and dispersing rays of the surrounding city lights into infinite directions of Sphere.
- Tower of the Winds – because its shape, being static or dynamic, depends on the strength of forces of Nature. The invisible part of the Nature takes its shape…