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DSC_6111 Spatial Drawing/Speculative Site  BOUNDARIES AND JUNCTION POINTS Lefebvre, The Production of Space. Lefebvre in his chapter on Spatial Architectonics makes reference to the relationships established by boundaries and the relationship between boundaries and named places. These relationships promote significant and specific conditions or features to a space. This in turn results in various kinds…

Paintings, spatial field grounds, layered paint and paper with photographic inclusions.  Outpost 080722 Paintings, spatial field grounds, layered paint and paper with photographic inclusions. Output of Artists’ Studios Vital space for production, presentation, connection and exchange. The cyanotype  process in contemporary art practice. Cyanotype Collages, Karl Blossfeldt Cyanotype canvas, yellow ochre, sun mappings, spatial space/time…

Social apparatuses and agents that explore the possibilities of space. Other Worlds : Insistent moments of mark making/subjectivity. Source: Immaterial Architectures : Raveningham Pavilion and The Architecture of Natural Light

Immaterial Architectures : Raveningham Pavilion and The Architecture of Natural Light Christopher Wilmarth ; Poetics/Duality of Light and gravity Other Architecture Constructing Metaphysical Space Wilmarth’s art reveals his essential concern with the mystical and physical properties of light, especially the ways in which light evokes reverie and generates sensations of space and containment. The Architecture…

TIME/ACTION/DIAGRAM : Kairos  Outpost 290722 TIME/ACTION/DIAGRAM. Maya Deren’s 1948 film, Meditation on Violence. Two parabolic arcs describe three types of Chinese boxing in a single continuous movement. The last portion of the film is printed in reverse motion. DURATION The not yet meets the already gone. A fluid, flowing time is interwined with an experience…

Mediators : Vessels and Drawings creating Intercessors Spaces/Aesthetics : ‘Spatiality’ between Objects, Concepts and Beings In his discussion of mediators, Gilles Deleuze (1995,121) describes being taken up in the motion of a big wave. He notes that instead of looking for ‘points of origin’ attention should be directed to mediators that enable a ‘putting-into-orbit’ that…

Studio Works  Outpost 050822 The Thinking Field/Speculative Curriculums. The Body-In-Action/Making Spaces between Art, Architecture, Archaeology and Anthropology. Sequences of actions that add up to an observational-heuristic procedure. Conserved without restoration of lost detail. The problem of historical materials, which we can never ignore but can’t imitate directly either, is an issue that has always concerned…

Lightness/Synthesis/Solitude  Outpost 190822 LIGHTNESS QUICKNESS EXACTITUDE VISIBILITY MULTIPLICITY Six Memos for The Next Millennium. Italo Calvino, 1992. The difference between the first versions I read and the final ones lies in structure, not content. Calvino wanted to call the sixth lecture ‘consistency’ and he planned to write it in Cambridge. I found the others, all…

Some approaches and interpretations of phenomenology in architecture.  Outpost 020922 Perceptual Experience. On The Nature of Things. The notion of specific agential intra-actions in architectural practice. Thingification, the turning of relations into things,  entities, relata, all infects much of the way we understand the world and our relationship to it. Karen Barad sees reality composed…

Visual Substance : Inter-Subjective Encounters Outpost 090222 Architectural Body/Procedural Architecture Organism/Person/Environment Earth, House, Hold, Dwelling Places. Unlike the sense of sight or hearing, only the sense of touch can discern space and time at once. The skin as the harbourer of a subjects sense of touch. Skin/Subjectivity becomes as flesh a connective tissue which both…