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A Question and a Theory
Here’s a question: If the present was percieved as a dimensionless membrane dividing the past from the future, could we experience consciousness? Could a mind exist on such a temporal knife’s edge? That leads to a theory: As a precursor to consciousness, evolution developed in brains a concept of ‘now’ that included a short period…
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What is Now?
Here is paradox about time that dates back to Aristotle: The past does not exist any longer. The future does not exist yet. And the present is just the threshold at which the future turns into the past and has no duration. The present is a nothing that divides two things that don’t exist: the…
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Time and the Landscape
It takes time to see a landscape and it takes time to look at a picture of a landscape. Our vision only allows for a narrow cone, 2 degrees, of detailed vision. What we see is a construction, a fabrication of what our mind thinks is out there in the world. In the landscape its…
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Navigating Towards a Hazy Horizon
Smoke from forest fires has descended like fog, a brownish, yellowish smog. Over the lake the horizon is obscured. We’re losing our bearings and can’t find reference points. We have to move forward carefully. What does the future hold in store?
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Wheelbarrows
The fragments of buildings I’ve included in this cloud are from 3D models of buildings here in Meaford that have been unceremoniously demolished. There was a beautiful little train station here and several nineteenth century factories. Meaford manufactured, amongst other things, turbines, flooring, and wheelbarrows!
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Discombobulated – Recombobulated
You can hardly help it. Its as though you’re pre-programmed to interpret random shapes as discernable objects: animals, faces, buildings and landscapes. Spend any time looking at randomly churning clouds and you’ll see all manner of fantastic creations. Slowly, and inevitably, these apparitions dissolve and your mind serves up new illusions.
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The Micromegascope
Clouds having passed through the micromegascope. Micro Megas is the name of a series of drawings from 1979 by the architect Daniel Libeskind.They use the language of architectural drawing: plans, sections and axonometrics, but they don’t resolve into concrete representation; they float free of gravity, scale, and dimension, full of ambiguous potential. Libeskind got the…
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Perception: an Experiment
I’m interested in the process of seeing. What actually happens when the mind attempts to make sense of what is presented to the eyes? This image consists of conflicting representations. At first you see the twisting, colourful geometry that alternates between reflected colours on a water surface and geometric abstraction. A rendered perspective, most visible…
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Horizon
‘Horizon’ UV printed acrylic, Jacquard tapestry, and digital composite on aluminum, 40″ x 16″ Light from the world is focused through a lens on to a sensor grid. The resulting information is process and manipulated in various ways and then rendered in several materials: tapestry, digital prints and translucent patterns in glass. Only when viewed…