Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
-Rainer Maria Rilke-
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Langu(ish)age
Langu-ish-age
The problem with, (process of) communication presents itself all too clearly within our day to day lives. Communication (conscious) not only affords humans great luxury in serving as a social tool, but conversely, can act as a physical and intellectual partition between disparate parties / concepts / ideologies.
This linguistic gap or lapse can be analyzed along varying trajectories, interpersonal relationships, the relationship between the observer and the observed, between intention and effect, between craftsman and craft etc. Understanding the fundamental structure of these relationships is intriguing to me. I feel that at the essence of these concepts language begins to breakdown.
However, perhaps space does not. Maybe these are questions that are essentially spatial in nature.
Could design begin to answer some of these questions? Is there space for architecture within this discussion? Could space fill in the gaps?
The problem with, (process of) communication presents itself all too clearly within our day to day lives. Communication (conscious) not only affords humans great luxury in serving as a social tool, but conversely, can act as a physical and intellectual partition between disparate parties / concepts / ideologies.
This linguistic gap or lapse can be analyzed along varying trajectories, interpersonal relationships, the relationship between the observer and the observed, between intention and effect, between craftsman and craft etc. Understanding the fundamental structure of these relationships is intriguing to me. I feel that at the essence of these concepts language begins to breakdown.
However, perhaps space does not. Maybe these are questions that are essentially spatial in nature.
Could design begin to answer some of these questions? Is there space for architecture within this discussion? Could space fill in the gaps?
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
A Transitional [Translational] Birth
A Transitional [Translational] Birth
What is the nature of the space between thought and action, between intent and execution? Two events, the birth of thought, and the expression of intention in the material world, are simultaneously infinitely near and infinitely far from one another. In this state space is dimensionless and formless. Thus the transition from intellectual glimmer to intelligible reality is fundamentally one of becoming.
As I am writing these words, I am simultaneously aware of an almost primal urge to growl, claw, and hum their meaning to my audience. Although the written or spoken form of this thought will have to suffice for now, I can only imagine that at the core, in the most primal and original regions of my mind, that place where “thought” is not the correct term for what is occurring, it is different.
There is a fundamental relationship between the way we think, and the way we act. What we idealize and what we create, and what we conceptualize and what we make. The question for me is not why this is, but what this is. What is the nature of this dimensionless and timeless chain of events? In what space does it occur? What is generated from this process: impulse to instinct, ideation to conceptualization, thought to action, head to hand. And perhaps more importantly, what information is worn away, mutated, or lost in its translation?
What is the nature of the space between thought and action, between intent and execution? Two events, the birth of thought, and the expression of intention in the material world, are simultaneously infinitely near and infinitely far from one another. In this state space is dimensionless and formless. Thus the transition from intellectual glimmer to intelligible reality is fundamentally one of becoming.
As I am writing these words, I am simultaneously aware of an almost primal urge to growl, claw, and hum their meaning to my audience. Although the written or spoken form of this thought will have to suffice for now, I can only imagine that at the core, in the most primal and original regions of my mind, that place where “thought” is not the correct term for what is occurring, it is different.
There is a fundamental relationship between the way we think, and the way we act. What we idealize and what we create, and what we conceptualize and what we make. The question for me is not why this is, but what this is. What is the nature of this dimensionless and timeless chain of events? In what space does it occur? What is generated from this process: impulse to instinct, ideation to conceptualization, thought to action, head to hand. And perhaps more importantly, what information is worn away, mutated, or lost in its translation?
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