Tuesday, 1 September 2026

Towards~Making a holding in place : Tentative Architectures/Ecologies~Wayfaring : Clay/Prebiotic World/Correspondences

Cairns-Smith suggested that the present essential elements of biology-nucleic acids and catalyzing proteins-evolved on a kind of prebiotic scaffolding. Ultimately the scaffolding disappeared, leaving behind the biochemistry that now controls the processes of all living things. The vanishing supporting structure, in the view of Cairns-Smith, could have been clay.


Life Search, Time-Life Books.

05/03/2013







Leylines : Modes of Articulation~Speculative Making

Research~Creation : Art Begins In the Manner~Way of Practice.
Clay Matter(s) as innate knowledge, intuition, speculation.
A Serious Place : Pronouncements of both play and inquiry.

Artist's Book. Collage and drawings, research images from Josef Albers.


The Call of Indigenous Philosophy as story, as performance, as practice.

Modes of Articulation~Speculative Making.