Floating Quotes

QUOTES floating around this week

All that is solid melts into air.

Be here now.

Currently, I am looking for a direction, trying to steer my subconscious into creating a master plan for a town. My subconscious wants to make this master plan out of white porcelain, to look at it, and to drop it on the floor to see where it breaks. I want to open the thing up to itself, watch it flooded by light and air, exposed.

These two quotes have been useful in mediating the impulse.

An Ark Kit Puncture

MORE from Gordon Matta-Clark: The Space Between by James Attlee & Lisa Le Feuvre (2003):

(p. 48) 
    completion through removal
    completion through collapse
    completion through emptiness

"The word Anarchitecture itself merged two apparently conflicting sets of principles - the planned and the spontaneous, the structured and the fluid, the built and the disassembled - and by joining them together held them in balance, setting up a kind of creative tension. The continual puns the members of the Anarchitecture group made about their name - AN ARK KIT PUNCTURE, ANARCHY TORTURE, AN ARTIC LECTURE, AN ORCHID TEXTURE, AN ART COLLECTOR etc - were a demonstration of that the principle of entropy applied as much to language as to the physical world. One can no more rely on a word to retain its meaning over the years than one can a politician his integrity, a building its function or an ideology its validity. The rules that govern language - on the levels of phonetics, semantics or syntax; the divisions between words that render them legible as signs - this architecture of sound and meaning is written on water not on stone. As Duchamp had pointed out, nothing in the universe is at rest."

photos from downtown Petaluma:

The Space Between

PSYCHOGEOGRAPHY of people, water, in drift

From Gordon Matta-Clark: The Space Between by James Attlee & Lisa Le Feuvre (2003):

"Psychogeographers would drift through the urban environment, attuned to subtle changes in the atmosphere of the streets, prompted to change direction by stimuli not immediately apparent to less sensitive observers. The important thing was to get beyond the overarching control of town-planners, politicians and architects, into regions where there existed a unitary ambience: an indefinable combination of lively and colourful inhabitants, light, sounds, activity and architectural backdrop.

Situationist cartography, making use of cutups and collages of existing maps, was highly selective, concentrating on revealing the surviving fragments of the city that had escaped the attention of urban planners and retained their original ambiance and excising the rest."

LED shadows

TRIPPING on shadows

After another long day at school, I began to trip on the shadows on my walk back to the scooter. Shadows will never be the same again.

Good Morning

FROM October in A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold:

"It would seem as if the sun were responsible for the daily retreat of reticence from the world. At any rate, by the time the mists are white over the lowlands, every rooster is bragging ad lib, and every corn shock is pretending to be twice as tall as any corn that ever grew. By sun-up every squirrel is exaggerating some fancied indignity to his person, and every jaw proclaiming with false emotion about suppositious dangers to society, at this very moment discovered by him. Distant crows are berating a hypothetical owl, just to tell the world how vigilant crows are, and a pheasant cock, musing perhaps on his philandering of bygone days, beats the air with his wings and tell the world in raucous warning that he owns this marsh and all the hens in it.

...and finally, at evening, the drone of an untended radio. Then everybody goes to bed to relearn the lessons of the night."

Flexible Industry

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