Path to enlightenment 3D

Another old video of mine. This one was part of a rather large project I worked on. The story behind this video started when I took a Asian History of Art class. There I learned that one of the most important structures of the Buddhist religion are stupas (reliquaries the are used in part of their practices). I was fascinated by them, specially by the fact that by their mere shape one could make out so many symbols and meanings. I was also fascinated by how it was incorporated into their rituals such as the one were they circumambulate (walk) around the structure.

After taking this class, I decided that I would build a video-installation that would interpret some of the symbols present in the stupa. The first part of the project was to create this video that would later be projected on an installation I would build.

The structure one see at first is a Tibetan style stupa. And, each set of images one sees on the inside of the structure is supposed to represent what each layer on a stupa symbolizes.