Visualizing "the Point" of the Project (https://stsinfrastructures.org/content/sketch-visualizing-point-project/essay)

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August 3, 2020

Figure 1

The point: (1) In the absence of the body, relying on the presence of its projection; (2) To the absence of the body, replying by the presence of its projection; while this piece, 'Deploying an universe in the candy paper', just higlights it

(1) In the absence of the body, relying on the presence of its projection; (2) To the absence of the body, replying by the presence of its projection.

Maude Corriveau, Déployer l’univers dans un papier de bonbon, 2019, colored pencil and dry pastel on Stonehenge paper, 76 x 56 cm (30” x 22”)

Source:

https://www.gallerynicolasrobert.com/maude-corriveau-a-labsence-du-corps-repond-la-presence-de-sa-projection

Figure 2

The point: ancient and modern; concret and prosaic; material and abstraction.

Fragment of a Floor Mosaic with a Personification of Ktisis 500–550, with modern restoration

Description: 'Fragment of a Floor Mosaic with a Personification of Ktisis 500–550, with modern restoration'

Source:© 2000–2020 The Metropolitan Museum of Art

https://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/md/original/DT112.jpg

Figure 3

The point: calculation and simplification; everyday life and usefulness; color and abstraction.

a visual tool to calculate the level of the see according to the phases of the moon (Paris, BnF, ms. esp. 30, f. 2), 1375

Description: 'a visual tool to calculate the level of the see according to the phases of the moon', ca 1375.

Source: Paris, BnF, ms. esp. 30, f. 2

https://preabstract.hypotheses.org/1035

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July 16, 2020

Continuing with my chiasmus schtick/spiel: a painting by Han Yajuan, "Possibility of the Unknown."  The title itself signs what interests me: the unknown X emerging from patterns and the patterns of patterns.  Gregory Bateson's "patterns that connect."

 

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