How often do we stop?

I have returned from my voyage in lands unknown and by Tuesday feel like I've never been away! Saw lots of the sights in Budapest and walked for miles, broken foot and all :-)

One of the best things I saw though was an art sculpture when passing through a park. It was quite simple but the plaque at the side made me smile. It made me think of all my year 12's and what they would say in philosophy, it made me think of my year 8's who have been looking at different types of worship, but most of all I just liked the idea of it- especially the line, 'should we stop or keep running? by which may we gain more?'

'Freedom

Are we still able to stop and meditate? To be glad and daydream? To be fond of the ancient power of water and wind. Are we able, do we want to associate if today's sculptors offer ideals and visual thoughts to be associated?

Should we stop or keep running? By which may we gain more?

The glass object swimming on the water and bearing the reflection of its environment embodies our desired freedom.

As a giant bird it would like to take wing just now and to forget about every trouble on earth.

Free, moved by the wind, it shows through its meditative movement that the world might also be thought of like that, there may be perhaps intellectual and spiritual tasks which are more important than everything else in the drifting of everyday routine.

And if we stop, are we able, do we actively want to take part in the composition of the accompanying world's movement into an image?

Are we able to abandon ourselves to the joys of interactive creation?

The sculpture created by the means of 'miminal art' thus without instruments offers virtual image elements. Walking round the sculpture we ourselves may produce a steadily changing, film-like series of images depending on our intellect and visual ability. The spectator is not a sufferer of the sculpture but an organic associate creature of the artist'