Showing posts with label Arthur Zajonc. Show all posts
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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.


Wednesday, 26 April 2023

Diffractive Title/Things : The thing contained is not the thing contained.

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The thing contained is not the thing contained.

Manifesto for explorations of 'IN'

Steven Holl.


You Are The Weather.

Roni Horn.


Rich Lyrical Motifs.

Brilliant Trees.

Within each lesson lies the price to learn.

David Sylvian. 








Alternative Photography/Filtered Radiance

Documents from research archive







Seeing Dark Things

Roy Sorensen. 2008


Tracing Light : Petworth House, West Sussex 2000

David Alan Mellor, Garry Fabian Miller.


Light And The Genius Loci

For Derrida, the sun not only marks the beginning of metaphoricity but it is also an inescapable reminder of the solar system and oscillations, hidings and occultrations, inherent in 'a certain history of the relationships; earth/sun inthe system of perception'.


Mutations Of Light

Petworth Window, 6 July 1999


Light's Windows And Rooms

Passing towards the Invisible.

The prospect of some metaphysical realm beyond the blue end of the spectrum and beyond material things illuminated to carnal sight, was a recurrent  theme in William Henry Fox Talbot's early speculations.


CATCHING THE LIGHT

The entangled history of light and mind

Arthur Zajonc


BROUGHT TO LIGHT

PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE INVISIBLE 1840-1900





Sight Unseen

Picturing The Universe

Corey Keller

Invisible objects, penciled by nature's own hand.

In his introduction to the exhibition catalogue Iconoclash: Beyond the Image Wars in Science, Religion, and Art, the historian of science Bruno Latour argues that scientific pictures are powerfully affective because they more than mere images; they are, as he puts it, the 'world itself'.


The Social

Photographic Eye

Jennifer Tucker

Nineteenth century science was characterized by both the appeal to visual evidence and the need for confirmation by the testimony of eyewitnesses. The latter explains why scientists pursued public viewings of their photographs by means of illustrated slide lectures, exhibitions, and reproduction in newspapers and magazines.

An understanding of the social boundaries of nineteenth century science helps make sense of a certain paradox within contemporary attitudes towards photography of the invisible. The ideal of mechanical objectivity in documenting visual knowledge demanded the elimination of the artist-observer and all of the subjectivity implicit in drawing by hand. 


Invisible Worlds

Visible Media

Tom Gunning

William Henry Fox Talbot, Slice of horse chestnut, seen through the solar microscope, 1840, salt print 18.6x22.5 cm.


Techniques Of The Observer

On Vision And Modernity In The Nineteenth Century

Jonathan Crary

The Camera Obscura and its Subject

Above all it indicates the appearance of a new model of subjectivity, the hegemony of a new subject-effect. First of all the camera obscura performs an operation of individuation; that is, it necessarily defines an observer as isolated, enclosed, and autonomous within its dark confines. It impels a kind of askesis, or withdrawal from the world, in order to regulate and purify one's relation to the manifold contents of the now 'exterior' world. 


UNDER THE SUN

By The Light Of The Fertile Observer

Metaphors of illumination in the photography of Christopher Bucklow, Susan Derges, Garry Fabian Miller, and Adam Fuss.

An Epiphany Of Light

David Alan Mellor


Christopher Bucklow , Guests



Jeanette Winterson, Gut Symmetries

Matter is provisional and that includes me. If the physics is correct then we are neither alive or dead as we commonly understand it, but in different states of potentiality.












Finding enlightenment in the ground beneath one's feet.

J. G. Bennett.


Walking/Thinking with Ideas/Observations.

Site Drawings and Observational Mappings.

Cultivation Field.

Artist's Development.

Planting Research

Vital Nourishment.


Raveningham Garden Project.

Circle/Linear Time/Centred on objects.

Spiral/Deep Time/Awareness between things.

Architectural Ceramics.


Inseminations/Sketchbooks

Working Ideas/Proposals into Matter/Making


Contents/Description/Instructions/Diagram/Drawing


Curatorial.

Spatial Practice.

Practice/Display/Audience.

 


Hungate.

Julian 600.

Cell/Seeds/Dispersal/Cloud

Organism-Person-Environment



Anglian Potters

5 Years of membership/exhibition/making.


Commissioning of 12 cu ft Gas Kiln.

Kiln Craft Glass Kiln.

Momentum Wheel, refurbish/rebuild.


Drawing Confrontations of Flesh and Bone.

From Models to Drawings.

Figuring It Out.

Anatomy/Art/Photography : Living/Deceased/Represented.

The Body on Display.

From Naked to Nude.

The Impossible Nude.


The Psychology of Nakedness.

Confronting the human form both practically and theoretically.

Vital Nourishment.

Aesthetics in Western Art and Chinese Culture.


Georg Eisler.

Francois Jullien.