Paradiscope
The question "What does paradise look like today?" presupposes a unique image to paradise. To frame it within the contemporary context does not make up for the inadequacies of its historical baggage of apriori images. And a metaphorical idea of paradise within the realm of real further reveals the awkward detachment to these representations.
Just as in a periscope, paradiscopes work on the simple principle of capturing images through reflections. However, by sitting the paradiscopes in specific engagements with its immediate surroundings and through a witty rearrangements of the mirrors, one would experience a variety of expected / unexpected images which include tree top canopies, the sky, the back of one's head etc. This evokes the experience of confronting a non absolute perception despite using the same mechanism and the image's uncanny familiarity also recalls a similar query of its unfamiliarity.
As such, if paradise is an image, paradiscope does not audaciously paint it on the behalf of the collective. Rather, it is a medium that raises the question of a definitive perception and questions our disengagement with it.
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