Isama Noguchi Museum
ŌMNI
Transition Object –
For Burn Affected Listening
A Limited Incense Design Object & Burner For Contemporary Incense Rituals
ŌMNI is designed exclusively for the Isamu Noguchi Museum and FOLIE à PLUSIEURS, by Sruli Recht. The Listening Object is a quartz sand 3D printed platform, made in Germany, for placing and burning incense sticks.
Photography - Marinó Thorlacius
About Ōmni
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.
About co -
Contemporary Olfactive Objects And Incense Rituals
co - is an ongoing series of collaborative incense, objects and music inspired by the Japanese aesthetic practice of Koh-do, and the process of “listening to incense”. Our aim is to inspire a modern appreciation for incense, and to promote a new cultural ritual of pause through the interplay of music and scent.
Each collection is launched and made available exclusively for The Noguchi Museum Store, New York and Galerie Folie.
Ōmni Release Teaser
Video Edit – Raphael Recht
Sound Design – Valgeir Sigurðsson