2016-03-22

Kolkoz


From 'La Collection Americaine' by French duo artists Kolkoz aka Samuel Boutruche and Benjamin Moreau. The duo create art in a diverse range of mediums from video to sculpture and installation. For La Collection Americaine they use luxurious baroque gold frames to create sculptural forms.

Eshu

Eshu, also known as Elegba or Legba, is a trickster god of the Yoruba people of Nigeria in West Africa. He is unpredictable, sly, and fond of pranks that can be cruel and disruptive. Eshu, who knows all the languages spoken on earth, serves as a messenger between the gods and people.
According to one story, Eshu became the messenger after playing a trick on the High God. He stole yams from the god's garden, used the god's slippers to make footprints there, and then suggested that the god had stolen the yams himself. Annoyed, the High God ordered Eshu to visit the sky every night and tell him what happened on earth during the day.
http://www.mythencyclopedia.com/Dr-Fi/Eshu.html



Order and disorder are forever paired, and neither can exist without the other.

Explanation of theory: http://www.mythencyclopedia.com/knowledge/Order_and_disorder__physics_.html

Alexander McQueen made a collection inspired by Eshu and the Yoruba people in 2000: