COSMOLOGY I recently read an issue of Poetry magazine which had a very cool poem, "The Great Order of the Universe" by Christian Bök. Here is a link to read it. I found it posted on someone's blog.
"The poem is a response to the fiftieth anniversary of the LEGO patent. Using a conceptual strategy reminiscent of Sol LeWitt, the image enumerates every possible way of combining two LEGO bricks, each with eight pegs. The caption consists of two texts: the first, a translated paragraph from a volume by Democritus; the second, a transcribed paragraph from the patent by Godtfred Kirk Christiansen. The two paragraphs are perfect anagrams of each other." It made me think of the section within the syllabus on cosmology. I think it is interesting that this poem, that like lego blocks, uses the same letters from CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY, but simply have been rearranged into a MODERN patent for a plastic modern toy product. It can easily apply to architecture, but I thought of the last class discussion concerning spectrum. My thoughts - Spectrum is not a line between two opposing, definitive states or things. But a way of perceiving a natural variance or rearrangement of the same elements. Spectrum only exists as an idea. It is like vocabulary - an imposition onto the natural world in order to better comprehend it. A spectrum only starts and stops where we want it to, usually within our limited understanding of things.
Collecting is the instinct, Order is the process, beginners mind is the who. The theme of order or concept of, is deeply embedded in our psyche. So deep that It can be seen as the origin of our thought or even more specifically, process of thought. After being born, an infant is held by its mother. Subconsciously this infant person has begun collecting data from this first experience. The warm embrace, the smell, the friction of skin connection, the structure of personal attachment. These senses, are to be stored and later recalled subconsciously. Each are ordered to identify an individual identity that when recalled, the infant can recognizes its own mother without ever having opened it’s eyes. So, beginners mind I feel, is formulating an idea around the process of collecting and ordering senses to form identities, almost indescribable in words. How could you possibly describe what a persons natural smell or warmth is, without associative diction?
ways of seeing and forming ideas ... seeing is a very subjective matter . As shakespeare's famous quote " beauty is in the eye of the beholder" states. what one can find ugly might come across as beautiful to the other . therefore seeing the true nature of things can be very different for each individual. also certain circumstances for example , our moods and feelings at the time we are observing things can change our experience and understanding of that thing ... so if ideas are formed from direct experience then there must be 6 billion ideas about a single thing as non can be identical to the other based on this ... so how can we ever form a specific idea for a single situation, object , matter based on this ?
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ReplyDeleteI recently read an issue of Poetry magazine which had a very cool poem, "The Great Order of the Universe" by Christian Bök.
Here is a link to read it. I found it posted on someone's blog.
http://jenbee.tumblr.com/post/161857502/the-great-order-of-the-universe-by-christian-bok
"The poem is a response to the fiftieth anniversary of the LEGO patent. Using a conceptual strategy reminiscent of Sol LeWitt, the image enumerates every possible way of combining two LEGO bricks, each with eight pegs. The caption consists of two texts: the first, a translated paragraph from a volume by Democritus; the second, a transcribed paragraph from the patent by Godtfred Kirk Christiansen. The two paragraphs are perfect anagrams of each other."
It made me think of the section within the syllabus on cosmology.
I think it is interesting that this poem, that like lego blocks, uses the same letters from CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY, but simply have been rearranged into a MODERN patent for a plastic modern toy product.
It can easily apply to architecture, but I thought of the last class discussion concerning spectrum. My thoughts - Spectrum is not a line between two opposing, definitive states or things. But a way of perceiving a natural variance or rearrangement of the same elements. Spectrum only exists as an idea. It is like vocabulary - an imposition onto the natural world in order to better comprehend it.
A spectrum only starts and stops where we want it to, usually within our limited understanding of things.
Collecting / Order / Beginners mind
ReplyDeleteCollecting is the instinct, Order is the process, beginners mind is the who. The theme of order or concept of, is deeply embedded in our psyche. So deep that It can be seen as the origin of our thought or even more specifically, process of thought. After being born, an infant is held by its mother. Subconsciously this infant person has begun collecting data from this first experience. The warm embrace, the smell, the friction of skin connection, the structure of personal attachment. These senses, are to be stored and later recalled subconsciously. Each are ordered to identify an individual identity that when recalled, the infant can recognizes its own mother without ever having opened it’s eyes. So, beginners mind I feel, is formulating an idea around the process of collecting and ordering senses to form identities, almost indescribable in words. How could you possibly describe what a persons natural smell or warmth is, without associative diction?
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ReplyDeleteways of seeing and forming ideas ...
ReplyDeleteseeing is a very subjective matter . As shakespeare's famous quote " beauty is in the eye of the beholder" states. what one can find ugly might come across as beautiful to the other . therefore seeing the true nature of things can be very different for each individual. also certain circumstances for example , our moods and feelings at the time we are observing things can change our experience and understanding of that thing ... so if ideas are formed from direct experience then there must be 6 billion ideas about a single thing as non can be identical to the other based on this ... so how can we ever form a specific idea for a single situation, object , matter based on this ?