Material absorbed in its own thoughts :
Sunday, 12 July 2026
Correspondences~Relational Fields : Other Affordances : Analogous Experience~Clay~Thinking
Monday, 29 June 2026
Correspondences and Mediums /Drawing/Speculative Learning Environments
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Mediums To Correspond With.
The Situatedness of Sinuous Form/Animacy Dancing.
Living/Learning with intensity/shelters and camps, Architectural Association Field Projects.
Garden Constellation.
Raveningham Transductive Mapping/Diagram.
Cyanotype Spatial Drawing.
Transducers convert the 'ductus' the kinetic quality of the gesture and its flow or movement from one register of bodily kineasthesia to another of material flow.
Brockwood Teaching Academy. 2011.
Speculative Learning Environments.
Brockwood Park Grounds.
A walk in the landscape whilst moving-making with clay.
Developing a mindfulness that is immanent in the attentiveness to ones surroundings through the playfulness of material and others.
Brockwood Park Library.
Hidden Curriculum.
Assemblage in the library for the re-imagining of architectural thinking and spaces for learning.
Architecture without architects.
Throwing Sticks.
The energies of the work,come from the gathering of materials and the gesture that animates them. For Goldsworthy the strength of the work lies precisely in the energies emanating from materials in their movement, growth and decay, and in the fleeting moments when they come together as one. Throwing as Goldsworthy shows us is not so much the outward effect of an embodied agency as the propulsion of animate being as it pulls, spills out into the world, it is the propulsion of life itself.
Ingold/Goldsworthy
Relationscapes/Erin Manning
Making.
The Propulsion Of Animate Being.
Tim Ingold.
The Clay-The Potter-The Wheel.
The potter's feeling flows in and out in a correspondence with the clay.
You do not need clay to 'interact' with the wheel, but you do need a wheel to 'correspond' with the clay. In pottery the mindful or attentive bodily movement of the practitioner, on the one hand and the flows and resistances of the material on the other, respond/correspond to one another in counterpoint of affective resonances, sentient awareness, and the flows/currents of animate life.
The distinction between interaction and correspondence if that, interaction is the dance of agency between definable points and objects, whilst correspondence can be seen as the dance of animacy weaving between all things and their phenomenal flux in the world.
In the dance of animacy bodily kinaesthesia interweaves contrapuntally with the flux of materials within an encompassing morphogenetic field of forces.
The flow of air, the wind, the breath of life are all the very antithesis of embodied agency.
For Ingold the very idea of agency and agents is the corollary of a logic for a closed system of embodiment, a system of closing things up in themselves.
Making/Intuition In Action.
Beyond mere human embodiment and objects and into a world full of correspondences/animacies that propel things and phenomena into the world.
World Without Objects, Tim Ingold.
The choreographic diagram/proposition generates less the stability of a complex of form, than the foregrounding of a field of resonance that defines a certain quality of activity. It speaks/seeks to create a drawing/diagram that captures in a fleeting moment the very qualities of movements and their expressibility such that their force of form can be felt.
Erin Manning.
Drawing, seeing made visible, through the pencil as transducer, not a vector of projection or a bridge between the architects imagining mind and the image on the paper.
The mark on paper leads as much as it is led.
Tim Ingold advocates a way of thinking through making in which sentient practitioners and active materials continually answer to, or correspond with one another in the generation of form.
Individuation's Dance, pushing your consciousness deep into every atom and cell.
Atom and Cell, Nine Horses, David Sylvian.
Correspondences.
The Material of Life.
Drawing into the animacy of things and feelings.
The drawing that tells is a correspondence of kinaesthetic awareness and the line of flight, it is a correspondence that is alternatively sewing the line into the mind and the mind into the line in a suturing action that grows tighter as the drawing proceeds.
The Stage of Drawing, A Walk for Walks Sake, Bryson.
Instead of dictating a thought, the thinking process turns into an act of waiting-listening-collaborating-dialogue in which one gradually learns the skill of co-operating with one's own work. This thinking, this imagining goes on as much in the hands and fingers as in the head, it is strung out in the lines of practice.
Pallasmaa/Ingold.
Thinking Through Drawing.
Barry Phipps.
Drawing is a gathering and a co-operating with one,s own work, a pulling together closer of the lines of inquiry.
Drawing The Line.
Making/Transduction and Perdurance.
Tim Ingold suggests colour saturates consciousness, line leads it. Thus if the line traces a process of thought then colour is its temperament. Both line and colour are modalities of feeling, but where line is haptic, colour is atmospheric.
All Buildings are Drawings.
Simon Unwin.
Only in the eyes of the architect is the trowel a bridge between the initial design and the final construction. For the builder it allows him to navigate the treacherous waters that flow beneath.
Tim Ingold.
When one is young and narrow minded, one wants the text and the drawing to concretise a preconceived idea, to give the idea an instant and precise shape.
Juhani Pallasmaa.
Sunday, 26 October 2025
Site~Emergent~Ecologies~Landscapes : Drawing translations within/between the photographic document.
Site~Making~Fieldworks.
Borderlands.
Alternative Photography.
Enchantments and Crossings : Somatic Effects~Enchantments
Topologies, mappings and their correspondences (thinking~feeling) between here, there, and elsewhere.
Playing with 'phronesis' a poetics of a spatial encounter and its enclosure forming an immediate immersive environment.
Developing inquiry through a process of familiarization and not-knowing, being undone by theory where things emerge, are accumulated, and are nurtured into being through relations (Continuous~weather-world sites) with human bodies and spatial bodies.
Archiving materials, sites and events, resulting in an incidental aesthetic gathering.
Outpost Studio 030222
Immersed in Matter(s) of an Emergent and Continuous Weather World.
Covehithe : Walking/Thinking/Physical Entanglements in the Landscape.
Walking into Emergent Landscapes : Covehithe Beach.
The OLD WAYS, a JOURNEY ON FOOT, Robert Macfarlane
Walking was a means of personal myth-making, but it also shaped his everyday longings:
Edward Thomas not only thought on paths and of them, but also with them.
To Thomas, paths connected real places but they also led out-wards to metaphysics, backwards to history and inward to the self. These traverses- between the conceptual, the spectral and the personal-occur often without signage in his writing, and are among its most characteristic events. He imagined himself in topographical terms.
Deeper Darkness, Photographic Memory/Process, Metonymy, Negative,
Analogue, Negated Nocturne. Walking, Others, Presence, Becoming,
Friday, 23 May 2025
Shadows Gathering around Objects, Causality, Art Ontologies : Correspondences in Drawing/Watching/Walking/Reading.
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The Quadruple Object.
There are two kinds of objects and two kinds of qualities, real and sensual in both cases.
Real objects and qualities exist in their own right, while sensual objects and qualities exist only as the correlate of some real object, whether human or otherwise.
I am not saying that a work of Art reveals the secret of life and being to us.
A work of Art affords the peculiar pleasure, an aesthetic performance in which the inwardness of things, their executant reality is opened to us.
Ortega.
Giacometti.
Created a visual lexicon of nothingness and being, of community and isolation.
Making fleeting visions, interactions between the modelling object and the space within which it exists. Concentrating, extracting a female nude from the atmosphere of a city, creating a space that oscillated with their shared community and isolation.
There is no direct knowledge of anything only relations-on-knowledge.
The real object withdraws inaccessible from the scene, as the new object generated by metaphor takes over the situation.
The real objects at stake in aesthetics are ourselves.
It would be more accurate to say that in Art the part of the image which looks towards the object is always subordinated to our efforts, because as basically Thespian beings we become the new object generated by metaphor.
Object-Oriented Ontology.
A New Theory of Everything.
Graham Harman. 2018
Aesthetics Is The Root Of All Philosophy.
Robert Mangold.
Creating a new mysterious real object with new sensual qualities.
Compound Objects
Assemblages
The Quadruple Object.
Since objects cannot exist without qualities and vice versa, there are only four possible combinations.
In Object-Oriented Ontology real-sensual objects and qualities always come together.
Object Relations
Potentiality/Receptivity
The Theatricality of Metaphor.
Art makes explicit the tension between qualities that are experienced in the real/sensual object.
I myself am the sole real object in all experience, encountering any number of sensual things.
Every objective image, on entering or leaving our consciousness produces a subjective reaction.
Art is primarily theatrical in nature, since the spectator becomes a sort of 'method actor' a theatrical actor acting out the structure of metaphor.
Ortega, An Essay in Esthetics By Way of a Preface.
Ontology is the branch of philosophy that deals with ultimate questions of what reality and real things are.
Bruno Latour, defines modernism as the view that there are two permanently distinct kingdoms, known as nature and culture and that it is the task of modernity, to purify these two domains from each other.
Metaphor is not knowledge about a pre-existing object, rather it brings about the production of a new object.
All we are saying is that the real object at stake in metaphor is neither the absent cypress-object to which we never gain direct access, nor the human being who takes note of it. But rather the new amalgamated reality formed from the reader who poses as a cypress-object and the qualities of the flame.
The successful metaphor much like the successful joke, will occur only when the reader or auditor is sincerely deployed in living it.
The metaphor is theatrical, in the same sense as one is living one's role on stage.
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