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Aug 23 2022
Likely due to her intensely analytical nature and her subsequent high-awareness of everyday uncertainty, our mother had a preoccupation with preserved and/or prospective spaces — that is, as a child we spent a lot of time in the stylized vacancies of the home sections of department stores, the roped off rooms of historical mansions and the recreated period rooms of museums. Though we liked these environs immensely, the encounters were rather intense and mystifying — the fertile presence of invisible people, the fake backlit views in the windows, the confusingly hollow appliances, the errant childless doll. To us it felt that, because of either a random, dimensional mishap or a magical, domestic misadventure, someone’s “reality” was forever cursed to be props and stage set.
Equally as often we were dragged to varied women’s clothing departments. This was a different affair, a scenario where we exercised more control. When allowed we would break away to find a particular type of large, circular garment rack and crawl to its center. Cloistered in a quiet ring of fabric, we could sit calmly and unobserved, perfect for contemplating private thoughts — like some sort of contented but apophenic gnome quietly parsing out their weird world in the warm, noiseless hollow of a large trunk.
When small, what is happening can’t really be explained to you; there’s simply insufficient experience, and subsequently, differing languages. Adults should of course try to bridge the gap, as the attempt creates general but important good will (the absence of which makes this sentiment plain), but mostly what takes place is an unclarified impression. An impression that, not dissimilar to those that suffer from conditions like paranoid schizophrenia, where the standard novelties of life get bewilderingly fused to highly specific and unrelated emotions.
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Context can be as much limiting as liberating. But without context there is no foci — no way to say that this is this and that is that. How to stay on the liberating side of things? Never think of a context as an end but as an ever-sensitive parameter. How to never get stuck with context being an end but an ever-sensitive parameter? Have a lot of options at the ready — if you are a designer, have lots of fonts at your disposal. This is where typographers like Mingoo Yoon are true angels of possibility. For what paint is to a painter, type is to a designer — and without it, design context would be singular or non-existent.
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Goings-On(line)
An offering of pieces and projects from around the web.
W.H. Auden, Musee des Beaux Arts, 1939
Charles Atlas, Instant Fame! (excerpts), 2003
Pierre Huyghe Lecture at Berkeley Center for New Media, 2011
Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Cure, 1997
Yuji Yamada, Fall/ Winter, 1999-00
Oracle
Of both the Tarot and the I Ching, we asked the following:
Life is endless change. The organism wants to be in rhythm with its environment. But absolute security cannot be in a world of such unpredictable novelty. What is to be done?
Live a life that strives to cast out all that is inferior and degrading.
To do this one must be courageous and non-punishing — basically an example of what is right. Over time one can develop a technique of predicting poor behavior of others in the environment to forestall all sorts of ill effects.
This week we pulled The Lovers. For humans, meaning comes from comparison (seeing difference). One way of gaining meaning through comparison is by being in a relationship. Meaningful relationships occur by developing trust. Trust requires a pointed lack of punishment united with courageous trial an error (this is not easy). If you are in a relationship, this week might be a good time to relinquish some control and foster openness. This obviously also applies to the self (as perhaps you are not in a relationship and don’t want to be) either way, consider giving up some self-control/self-awareness and be bolder this period.
Our first hexagram is #1, The Creative. This is the hexagram from which all others spring; — kind of like the primary testament of the I Ching. It is important to remember that the I Ching is called “the book of changes” — this hexagram details the ultimate way of dealing with the transcendental mutability of life. The key words here are: perseverance and creativity. “Perseverance” is “the power of persisting in time.” “Creativity” is the power of awakening and developing. It would naturally follow to ask what exactly should we persist in awakening and developing? Well, the process of “consciously casting out all that is inferior and degrading” as to develop a “tirelessness which depends upon consciously limiting the fields of one’s activity.” So that one’s “influence may endure.” There were four changes this week, of which the specific notes are: bide your time, beware of success and ambition destroying your integrity and finally ambition must be in proportion to skill, otherwise disaster will follow (a tower built too tall will topple dramatically).
Our second hexagram, the one that suggests how best to meet the challenges (or the changes) is #45, Gathering Together (Massing). It is only through the united efforts of masses of people that great things are achieved — even if a wonderful proposition (or discovery) of a single person or small group is responsible for a great achievement — it is through broad adoption that such achievements are realized. And since large groups are unwieldy, great and influential people must make the forestalling disaster a parallel pursuit of their great idea(s).
