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Representation must no longer be understood as the externalized animation of a dead object, such as an ornate vase or a carved chair, but rather ought to be thought of as having the qualities of a brick, which actively inhabits multiple modes of being. The brick is an eternally immanent object, lost in its own multiplicity, both containing and obscuring its image, referring unambiguously to itself, forever trading places with – while never actually touching – the word that describes it.
Materials have long been thought of as passive receptacles awaiting realization by the ideational force of form, but this conception fails to capture the interplay of the two in processes of production. To take on the shape of a brick, clay is not imposed upon by a preexisting mold; rather, it becomes individuated through a negotiation with form. Clay is not simply molded, it has a prismatically reciprocal and attuned encounter with its potentiality – setting rules about the form it can take, based on…
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Representation must no longer be understood as the externalized animation of a dead object, such as an ornate vase or a carved chair, but rather ought to be thought of as having the qualities of a brick, which actively inhabits multiple modes of being. The brick is an eternally immanent object, lost in its own multiplicity, both containing and obscuring its image, referring unambiguously to itself, forever trading places with – while never actually touching – the word that describes it.
Materials have long been thought of as passive receptacles awaiting realization by the ideational force of form, but this conception fails to capture the interplay of the two in processes of production. To take on the shape of a brick, clay is not imposed upon by a preexisting mold; rather, it becomes individuated through a negotiation with form. Clay is not simply molded, it has a prismatically reciprocal and attuned encounter with its potentiality – setting rules about the form it can take, based on…
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