The English word ritual derives from the Latin ritualis, "that which pertains to rite (ritus)". In Roman juridical and religious usage, ritus was the proven way (mos) of doing something,[5] or "correct performance, custom".[6] The original concept of ritus may be related to the Sanskrit ṛtá ("visible order)" in Vedic religion, "the lawful and regular order of the normal, and therefore proper, natural and true structure of cosmic, worldly, human and ritual events".
Human as one part of nature, during our industrialized daily life, we tend to separate ourself to nature. Our idea is to bring the notion back, reconnect human with nature surrounded, reflect on the notion of being and your position within a broader context and challenge your understanding of time.
ṛtá is reflective experience, aim to mend and ground our stance within the planetary context.
As the traditional "rite of passage". The whole experience contains 3 phases, "seperation", "liminality", and "incorporation."
For our ritual there will be a set that contains everything you need for it, besides it can be easily transported in this kit box to its chosen place. It contains the wearable, the heat source and the matching vessel with the connection to the wearable, the collection bowl and the prepared pieces of ice.
Rites of passage have three phases: separation, liminality, and incorporation.
In the first phase, people withdraw from their current status and prepare to move from one place or status to another. "The first phase (of separation) comprises symbolic behavior signifying the detachment of the individual from an earlier fixed point in the social structure." In order to prepare mentally and physically for the ritual, you have to find and determine a place that allows you access to nature days in advance. In order to connect with this natural environment, you need to take something that grows in this place and take it with you. At home, you fade it into a layer of ice to preserve it and to bring it to the ritual at the appropriate moment.
The transition (liminal) phase is the period between stages, during which one has left one place or state but has not yet entered or joined the next. On the day of the ritual, you go back to the chosen place. Now the ritual kit comes into play, it consists of a heat source, a suit and a bowl. The bowl filled with ice with the collected things from this place is heated and the water vapor produced from it travels around the body and collects again at the end in another bowl. At the same time, the suit vibrates to the rhythm of seismographic data collected nearby. The ritual participant now feels his environment in a different way and experiences a unique exchange with and also as part of his surroundings.