I think the question I am asking is can an object exist independently in a dynamic world (a world that does not stand still; a world that moves).
Objects seed behaviour. Lets just say that. What behaviour is seeded is a function of what the object is.. what properties it has.
It is also a function of what is immediately around it.
My work with the Evolver is asking that question (see Blog post here).
A screwdriver in a kitchen is a tin opener because of the tin and the human and the absence of screws.
A toaster on the forecourt of the Queen Victoria Building. Is it still a toaster? How has the environment changed it. It may still look the same, but don’t be fooled.
I was watching the first episode of little house on the prairie.. they were moving West and had a rake (and not much else) on their wagon. I was thinking that is asking a lot of the rake.
We are thrown because of the edges of things… because we too seem to have edges. if you probe the continuum you will move through space.. bit by bit. you will get to where I start and if you keep going you will get to where I end. Space because of all its differentiating seems to be that way.
Groups of people too have edges and properties – potentialities for certain behaviours – depending on the space they find themselves in – that can be good and of course, also bad.
The thing cannot be separated from the space that it is in. It is in fact not false to say that it IS the space that it is in. it is inter-dependent spatio-temporally persisting con/struct(ure)ion and ultimately unbounded, but of course that’s tricky to work with.
This horse and rider:
which emerged in the studio this morning epitomized that for me. When a form, here the horse emerges in the world to accommodate it. The space and its dynamics forever changed by this new presence. But then it is unreasonable to say the horse changed the space, because the space too changed the horse, or something a lot like that!
