River of oblivion

During my research into oblivion, I found data referring to Greek mythology. The river Lethe, as mentioned in the ”Divine Comedy” by Dante Alighieri is one of the rivers of Hades. Drinking from its waters  leads you to complete forgetfulness. Some ancient Greeks believed that souls had to drink from the waters of this river before reincarnating; they could not remember their past lives.

I decided to make a video as a sketch on this idea, using the elements of water, skin and written word. The idea of bathing a body covered with words, symbolizes the purification of memory. Water and gesture allow the disappearance  and symbolic idea of forgetting  these words.

Connections between water, skin and written word.

The idea of working on these items makes me think of the relationship between the idea of death, water and written words. I will continue with the research on relation to the loss of lives of immigrants across a border of water and the oblivion.

 

 

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