Thursday, September 11, 2008


These are the images I have selected that best representing what I was bringing up in my manifesto.

The first of which is the moving sidwalk, as it is a literally moving trajectory, customized to modern man, which moves through a space. It's kinetic and changes a perceived experience. The cut in the earth was a large project done by the artist Michael Heizer. It is two great cuts made in the earth, but each cut is separated by a distance from the other. The eye makes the connection between the two cuts when seen in the aerial view. Up close, you have no idea that this is part of a larger composition. The human eye makes the connection, does the uniting of the two scores in the earth. The last image is a Chinese hand scroll. I like these because unrolling them is part of the experience of reading them. The content, be it a text or painting or both, is dependent on the way in which it is read. It can be rolled up, unrolled, and carried in the human hand (unlike goliath or precious pieces of western art.) It encourages a type of tactile/kinetic relationship with the person who views it. It translates the observer to the participant.

1 comment:

luis said...

how is the people mover not something that sets up a condition of living that is akin to the "people floating in space" of wall-e?

is there a more complex way of thinking of this?

[i think, for instance, of the machines that move the cargo units and place them on airplanes - moving objects in different directions to align them to the shape of the aircraft... so, moving in x-y axes (and, z, as well: height) vs. x axis (terminal a-b).]