An incense object for transitional rituals.
 
ŌMNI listening object is a quartz sand platform, for the placing and burning of incense sticks.
 
This monument is activated for burn-affected listening, a memory device, a presence touchstone… and a temporal memorial to a heightened and opaque future.
 
Made from sand regionally sourced in Bavaria, ŌMNI is formed in a binder jet process with a biomaterial resin and made in one color - A black that expresses a brown hue over time as exposed to hard sunlight via radiation ultraviolet.
 
This item is produced in limited quantities.
 
Dimensions of ŌMNI - 137 mm x 46 mm x 115 mm
Weight 500 g
 
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ŌMNI was designed originally for the Isamu Noguchi Museum and FOLIE à PLUSIEURS in 2020.
 
The Listening Object is a quartz sand 3D printed platform, made in Germany, for placing and burning incense sticks.
 
The temporality of incense teaches us of the contradictory nature of presence - To be aware that you are here, while being aware that you are not there… Or somewhere else.
 
During the short period of burning, the listener is aware of the moments between lighting, listening, and extinguishing, while at the same time being transported to the place of memories or creative imagination.
 
Here, and not here. Permanent and permeable. Like the drifting and dissipating smoke.
 
Incense is a ritualized, short moment in time, for transition, for grounding, or for cognitive travel.
 
Like a meditation, creating the space to be present is a counterintuitive activity. Be present and let go. Despite this contradiction, the activity heightens the awareness of presence in which ever direction you find yourself facing.
 
ŌMNI quartz sand platform is a monument for burn affected listening, a memory device, a presence touchstone… and sometimes a memorial to a heightened and unseeable future.