Cell/Court/Domain : Inner Spaces/The Quiet Room/Reverie and Dwelling.

Dom Hans van der Laan.

Monastic Order/Ritual/Silences.

Clay-Ceramic/Thinking Architectures/Interior Places.

Gaston Bachelard.

The Poetics of Space.

An abode of intimate space, it is Blanchot's inner room.

Here everything is simpler, more radically simple.

The cell of myself fills with wonder.

The white-washed wall of my secret.

Pierre Jean Jouve, Les Noces.

These are architectural-themed ceramic sculptures created by UK-based visual artist Russell Moreton.

The works utilize a slab-built technique with raw, distressed finishes, including incised lines, drilled holes, and clay slips. They are described as "exploratory" and "processual" in nature, focusing on the material conversation between the artist and the clay. The structures are designed to demarcate space and evoke a sense of ruination or construction.

Theoretical Objects/Interiors.

A Philosophy of Solitude.

What do I know?

Michel de Montaigne

Pigeon Houses/Dovecotes for Philosophers. 

Making Matter(s)~Truth : The unison of experience and imagination in a world to which we are alive and that is alive to us. Tim Ingold

 Architectonic Space: Fifteen Lessons on the Disposition of the Human Habitat.

The purpose, dynamic and potential of Anthropology.

russellmoreton.com

The poetics of order:

Dom Hans van der Laan’s architectonic space

Caroline Voet

Already in his first writings in the 1930s, Dom van der Laan aims to define architectural principles that provide an intellectual expression of the act of dwelling (‘wonen’). To dwell is to enter into a relationship with one’s surroundings, meaning to understand them. For van der Laan, this is the primordial function of architecture: it makes space readable. From his Benedictine background, he draws concepts that enable him to understand this complex process of cognition. He studies the old church fathers such as St Thomas Aquinas, especially his comments on Plato and Aristotle. The Benedictine way of life builds upon the intertwined relation between mystery and matter, between intellect and senses, believing that this relation can be expressed through a Platonic order.5 Professor van Hooff, in describing the work of Dom van der Laan, defines cognition as a dual process of synthesis and analysis.6 On the one hand, there is the act of living, a synthesis of the concrete and singular reality. On the other hand, there is the process of analysis by the abstracting intellect. For us to know the concrete and singular reality, an intense interrelation between the two processes is needed.

http://www.vanderlaanstichting.nl/pics/pdf/130105-poetics_of_order-Caroline_Voet.pdf

Blue and Gray Paintings/Drawings on Glass : CELL COURT DOMAIN FIELDS

Pattern and Chaos/Liminality/Tectonics
Architectural surface for a Library,  raw materials, light, silence and solitude. 


Subjectivity and The Instant
The Numinous

In the last decades of the twentieth Century, philosophy witnessed a marked preoccupation with the discontinuous and the disruptive.
Translator's Preface, Eileen Rizo-Patron.
Intuition of the Instant, Gaston Bachelard.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/russellmoreton/

The Poetics of Order/Making/Odyssey : Dom Hans van der Laan/Tim Ingold/Jane Bennett

Architectonic Space: Fifteen Lessons on the Disposition of the Human Habitat

By Hans van der Laan

http://www.vanderlaanstichting.nl/en/home/

Makers work in a world that does not stand still

Iteration allows for continual correction (material conversation) in response to an ongoing perceptual monitoring of the task as it unfolds, mixing the potential for blending or combining matter that already exists into new combinations

Tim Ingold 2010

The social life of making

Making speaks in vivid dialogue with two associated themes, material and skill

Creativity involves not merely a spark of innovation or the execution of artistic inspiration. But the capacity to respond to unfolding iterations with materials. To use slowly accrued haptic knowledge to manipulate processes on the fly, and to judge how to counteract error and seize opportunities as they evolve 

Making becomes a process of iteration, and a maker works with this iteration prolifically 

Matter and materials are lively and require attention, materials continue to thwart in unpredictable ways, decaying and breaking down or wearing or breaking under force

Vibrant Matter, A Political Ecology of Things

Jane Bennett 2010

Attending to the process of making opens up prospects for following the lead of the material, where the properties of the materials themselves shape the direction in which making proceeds

Tim Ingold 2010

The aesthetic/vibrant spaces between objects

Collected Notes : Raveningham Sculpture Trail 2020

Walking underneath, through, passing by, 

… are all laid out in different moments in time.

Dom Hans van der Laan

ODYSSEY Aesthetic Intervals/Timbre/Traces

Studio Blackboard

Immateriality/Temporal/Transitions material and movement/Human agency

A Species of Spaces

 

Construction/Making/Collage

Forming, slowness and repetition, elements of painting

Assemblage, sensation, surface, objects and spaces between them gathered/thresholds

Sheltering/Weathered/ Exploring a fragility of a painting in the landscape

 

Robert Mangold, Paintings and Architectural Forms

Fragments from sketchbooks

 Ephemeral Architecture

 

Canvas as spatial verb

Yellow Ochre, Molochite, Gesso, Canvas, Paper, Textiles,

Wood, Lead, Nails

Canvas as folded construction/shelter/place

Operative Design, A Catalogue of Spatial Verbs

Georg Simmel, text Frames, Handles, Landscapes and the aesthetic ecology of things

The poetics of order:

Dom Hans van der Laan’s architectonic space
Caroline Voet

Already in his first writings in the 1930s, Dom van der Laan aims to define architectural principles that provide an intellectual expression of the act of dwelling (‘wonen’). To dwell is to enter into a relationship with one’s surroundings, meaning to understand them. For van der Laan, this is the primordial function of architecture: it makes space readable. From his Benedictine background, he draws concepts that enable him to understand this complex process of cognition. He studies the old church fathers such as St Thomas Aquinas, especially his comments on Plato and Aristotle. The Benedictine way of life builds upon the intertwined relation between mystery and matter, between intellect and senses, believing that this relation can be expressed through a Platonic order.5 Professor van Hooff, in describing the work of Dom van der Laan, defines cognition as a dual process of synthesis and analysis.6 On the one hand, there is the act of living, a synthesis of the concrete and singular reality. On the other hand, there is the process of analysis by the abstracting intellect. For us to know the concrete and singular reality, an intense interrelation between the two processes is needed.

http://www.vanderlaanstichting.nl/pics/pdf/130105-poetics_of_order-Caroline_Voet.pdf