Imperial Puzzle is installation of puzzle boxes which I have collected. I picked up puzzles with images representing royal themes, large cities, important buildings, themes from pop culture, church motifs, events in world etc. Collection started without a goal to make installation. I just picked up puzzles I liked, eventually (when i had 5 or 8 of them) I noticed, that they can have common denominator. From this time on I picked up puzzles that fit into collection of already determined content. As collection grew, I started to stack puzzle boxes each on other, building tower. Larger boxes went under and smaller above. It happened that I got puzzle box that was triangular in form (comic image made after The Garden of Earthly Delights painting), which always was put on top. This started to resemble obelisk, as height increased.
Pictures below show gradual progression of installation. You can see how height and number of puzzle boxes increases and Last picture shows that height has reached to ceilings, and new boxes lay on table and there is no place to fit them in in current setup.
Pictures below show gradual progression of installation. You can see how height and number of puzzle boxes increases and Last picture shows that height has reached to ceilings, and new boxes lay on table and there is no place to fit them in in current setup.
Due to increase in numbers instalation had to be put in new order. Installation of this height became unstable and ready to crush under its own weight. Bottom pieces started to squeeze in. One column was brought down to two parts and then into four. Installation became stable as never before, but it was not obelisk any more. It became to be resemblance of a wall.