Showing posts with label #appearances. Show all posts
Showing posts with label #appearances. Show all posts

Sunday, 12 July 2026

The Ceaseless Flux of Disappearances/The Examination of Sight.

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Drawing in Charcoal : Sensing through Movement.




#The Examination of Sight.

The act of drawing refuses the the process of disappearances, and instead proposes the simultaneity of a multitude of moments.


#Light.

The Ceaseless Flux/Causality Of Disappearance.


#Seeing.

On Disappearances Opposed By Assemblage.

The Drawing Challenges Disappearance/Oblivion.


Catching The Light : The Entwined History of Light and Mind, Arthur Zajonc.


Drawn To That Moment.


A drawing is more than a memento, more than a device for bringing back memories of the time past.





From each glance, a drawing assembles a little evidence, but it consists of the evidence of many glances which can be seen together. On one hand there is no sight in nature as unchanging as that of a drawing or painting, on the other hand what is unchanging in a drawing consists of so many assembled moments that they constitute a totality rather than a fragment.


For Cezanne, one minute in the life of the world is going by, paint it as it is.


For John Berger, how does a drawing or painting encompass time? 

What does it hold in its stillness?

Thus if appearances, at any given moment are a construction emerging from the debris of all that has previously appeared, might it be understandable that this very construction may give birth to the idea that everything will one day be recognizable and the flux of disappearance cease.


Because the faculty of sight is continuous, because visual categories, red-yellow-dark-thick-thin remain constant, and because so many things appear to remain in place, one forgets that the visual is always a result of an unrepeatable-momentary-encounter.


Any image, like the image read from the retina records an appearance which will disappear.


The faculty of sight developed as an active response to continually changing contingencies, and the more complex the view of appearances it could construct from events. 


For the faculty of sight to become developed, the mind uses recognition as an essential part of the construction of appearances, and recognition depends upon the phenomenon of reappearance sometimes occurring in the ceaseless flux of disappearance.


An event in itself has no appearances.


To draw is to look, to examine the spectrum of appearance.


Drawings reveal the process of their own creation, and  their own looking.

On Drawing/John Berger.








Drawing into awareness.

Things/Feelings that are both hermetic and infinite.


Drawing 'situates' impressions between relations and responses.

Between seeing and feeling.


Butades/Haptic trace, inscription.

Derrida/Blindness inherent in drawing.


The drawing is as much about a haptic experience as it is an optical one, the actual contact between paper and brush informs me that a mark will materialize, a mark marking the abstract and the concrete, a hybrid image of reality.


Perceptual Psychology.


My desire is to set up a situation to which I can take you and let you see.


My art deals with light itself, not as a bearer of revelation, but as revelation itself.


Immersive architectural environments to carry the inner world into the outer spaces, so that our sense of lived-in-territory is increased.


James Turrell/Deer Shelter Skyspace.


In the trajectory of the intermezzo.

The Working Diagram.

Relays between points/paths.

Nomadology, Deleuze/Guattari.


Friday, 26 June 2026

Art Workings~Visual Art Practice: Ceramics intertwined with an extensive visual art ...

Art Workings~Visual Art Practice: Ceramics intertwined with an extensive visual art ...: Making : Anthropological Objects ~ Fabrications on Humaning . Tim Ingold . Ceramics ~ Fired Clay 


The Politics of Architecture : Theorizing through speculative spatial practices.


"He rubbed his eyes. The riddle of his surroundings was confusing but his mind was quite clear - evidently his sleep had  benefited him. He was not in a bed at all as he understood the word, but lying naked on a very soft and yeilding mattress, in a trough of dark glass. The mattress was partly transparent, a fact he observed with a sense of insecurity, and below it was a mirror reflecting him greyly. Above his arm- and he saw with a shock that his skin was strangely dry and yellow - was bound a curious apparatus of rubber, bound so cunningly that it seemed to pass into his skin above and below. And this bed was placed in a case of greenish-coloured glass (as it seemed to him), a bar in the white framework of which had first arrested his attention. In the corner of the case was a stand of glittering and delicately made apparatus, for the most part quite strange appliances, though a maximum  and minimum thermometer was recognizable."



H. G. Wells : The Sleeper Awakes. 1899/1910

Spatiality : The Spatial Turn, Robert T. Tally Jr. 2013

Immediate Architectural Interventions, Durations and Effects : Apparatuses, Things and People in the Making of the City and the World. Alberto Altes Arlandis, Oren Lieberman. 2013

Preface (1921) ” The great city of this story is no more than a nightmare of Capitalism triumphant, a nightmare that was dreamt a quarter of a century ago. It is a fantastic possibility no longer possible. Much evil may be in store for mankind, but to this immense, grim organization of servitude, our race will never come” H.G. Wells. Easton Glebe, Dunmow,1921.