The Sea of Divine Madness

The sculpture chosen for this project is called The Sea of Divine Madness, created by Jinggoy Buensuceso last 2018. It represents earth as the divine planet containing primordial seas wherein the first evidence of life originated from its dark depths. This suggests the idea of human evolution dating back millions of years ago ancient species that emerged from the water and walking ashore as if it were an evolutionary baptism.

The color gold element present in this sculpture is formed similarly to how the lands of the earth look from afar. The artist also incorporates the concept of continental shift which allows terrains to take a different shape, in the same way death gives way to new life. The color black element that serves as a circular background signifies nothingness and being; the color of the void that births manifold universes. Besides the colors of bright gold and dark black, other contrasting components are the hard and soft textures that indicate the dualism of life. Hardness is a representation of man made objects, while softness is the animalistic and natural parts of humanity.

The meaning behind this aforementioned duality is the artist’s personal sense of peripeteia i.e. a sudden reversal of fortune or change in circumstances. Buensuceso believes in the dichotomy of existence that presents itself as beasts of order and chaos creation and destruction. This primordial pairing is a fundamental element of lived experience and two of the most basic subdivisions of Being itself (Peterson, 2018).