2019 HATalk Competition Entry

Nikole Tursi

Nikole Tursi – Argentina

The Inner Universe

Description

Equilibrium is harmony across all levels of its manifestation.
The universe is harmoniously balanced: its molecular energy dance is a magnificent interconnected network, which makes millions of planets and their corresponding galaxies rotate and revolve in orbit; transmitting its force and power to everything we call life, depicting everything that has been, is and will forever be.

Equilibrium is a part of nature, and its enigma runs free with no limits.
To maintain synchronization and remain in symphony with every universal molecule, one must remain in delicate balance between the interior and exterior, the visible and invisible, the known and unknown, impermanence and the eternal. Understanding such philosophy results in the concept of the Inner Universe, where the entire universe lives within you, and your totality lives within the universe.

When it came to thinking about colors, the first thing that came to mind was the fusion between black and white: the grayscale as a representation of the equilibrium between darkness and light. This color story naturally evolved into silver, creating a connecting between the Inner Universe and the divine. Visualizing it as something magnificent and extraordinary, the use of translucent textures invokes the concept of clarity, sparkles & metallics invoke the stars and cosmos, and the use of netting invokes the concept of interconnectivity. One’s interior and exterior manifests as our wings to reach equilibrium.

Through this headpiece, the goal was to unite the following concepts: the universe, both inner and outer, as a part and as a whole, our wings, and the possession of our third eye, which gifts us passage to these inner realms.

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