Wednesday, October 31, 2007

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3 comments:

marc said...

please define 'intrinsic callibration' explicitly... as if you were explaining to a child. this is necessary to communicate your thesis.

marc said...

i realize you intend to be brief...however, you need to explain everything thoroughly...even if it becomes a secondary footnote in your book.

Hot Ashes for Trees said...

I titled the section to help summarize what I gleaned from drawing the installation. Intrinsic refers to the inherent or characteristic quality of something. In this installation, the forest as a natural setting. Calibration refers specifically to my reading of the installation as an attempt to measure nature. Although I am not certain that this was the intended meaning of the installation's author, Mary Miss, but I took the opportunity anyway to push this idea further. Generally, to explore the idea of man's place in the universe. Specifically, man's attempt to control nature, man's attempt to control others, man's attempt to control him/herself. These were initial ideas of interest in the first exercises of the class. Some of these ideas will move further. I do not plan to take on an entire global political system. I can only speak of what I know. What I want to get down to are the experiences which have changed me as a human being and to utilize them either in part or in whole in the creation of spaces. I am speaking specifically about the experience of creation. I find this experience to be unique because it shifts the control of personal growth and change from external to internal. I am not quite sure but can only surmise about the social implications of this experience. Much of my proposal will deal with these social changes within the individual through space and connection to the site. I believe that change occurs not as a collective but within the individual. This logic was largely responsible for my proposed program of a school but that is not enough. The experience must go further than the current paradigm. I chose this studio because I felt Synesthesia could be a tool in developing the conditions necessary for such personal experiences to occur while there was still some sort of inhibition and at the fundamental level of a human being’s existence, the child. If not the child then a connection to the child in the adult. So again, we are back to memory.