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drawing

31/1/2020

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Art for Science

28/1/2020

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Art is text

Art is information

Art is communication

A Body
​(of its many shapes only one is knowledge)


to be studied
to be built upon
to be further developed

Free is Flow

Originality and Ownership
are secondary...
are tertiary ...

Can Science become Art?

Art was Science was Art was Science ...
for millennia?

perhaps

Art is the wild nature of Human

much as we reduce, quantify, exploit and package Nature at our peril

so too with Art?
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simplicity

27/1/2020

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a form

​far removed

“the driver” connected

only just

“the floating” about held

impossibly

too far

letting float outward being

floating

being

moving - wriggling - writhing

this motion to depth

parts

        almost

                   not just yet

                                     this

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another body

23/1/2020

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a made-body outside of mine
this other body
outside my own experience
the other body
can this ever be fully integrated
to my self?


my full-self
the total all-of-me


this expressive other body
what can it do?
what can it not do?
how does this other body feel?
does this other body feel?


away from my feeling
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undulations

10/1/2020

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Zurich airport espresso

5/1/2020

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LOOK
BUY
ENJOY


the trolley pronounces


here I buy coffee
feel this


here


others walk the treadmill
seats only for those who buy


then relax
so relax


the arrival towards looking forward to a London place
there
and I will enjoy
to debrief
this


geometry
how to take this away from
this
then
to give through
geometry


and


freedom allowed through this gifting
to work by tools of freedom for freedom 
wings
flight
but buoyancy without metal prisons


outpost → outpost


in freedom
no condition
functional
solution
solving
firstly for myself 
and towards every other
this is as is
required


welcome
welcoming
to be
and
so just as a bird will fly over all
and
trees allow us themselves
no matter who
also
within creation and solution this total embrace is more efficient
so
here
sitting in a no place
but
do I ever arrive?


where to and 
when to leave
when to depart
when to arrive
all is 
this one place


being here and at the same moment all of my surroundings


yes 
to work by the tools of freedom for freedom
but also to
use the tools and methodologies commonly exploited towards
repression
        control
subjugation 
and to utilise these tools in the passage towards freedom
to express expansiveness by means of the instruments of restriction


outside from nostalgia the work moves closer to an edge
the cutting edge
knife edge place
where
this is being towards
separation of this rational /analytical from the less-literal
words are in one book then not-words are in another


setting these methodologies
these flexible/experimental codes of good practise


the place also requires distinction and separation in all which I do


let beauty be that and allow this to surround me
this is the open-access place
and
my joyful bubble


GIVE OUT JOYFUL MEANINGLESS BEAUTY


the intellectual pursuit away/out of/ separate from
intelligence
the process further moving from mental analytical


allow science to make these observations


I am the outer


within process becoming away from this scientific
away from an art of emulation/ celebration of science


THIS IS NOT MY POINT
cultivate
this
away from
perspective
expansive
potential
freedom
light
then also the other
shadow
darkness
will be present


so this could be focus


geometry 


I need not succeed
I need not make convincing proof
I need not recreate the present


I may apply pressure
like
a pencil line


this will function as a measure for pressure on my path perhaps ?
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Floating Motion

1/1/2020

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Water as a platform to hold movement discourse centre shifts friction reduction to minimum.
Movement about centre
Movement mechanical exploitation of subtle change
System allowing response to air displacement
Simple outside of simplicity
Multiplicity of combinations can be explored
Within organically naturally found then into the design fabricated


The system enhance


Basic principle finding floatation vessel (vessel also for potential mechanism) 
Upper supporting unit
Reciprocating ballast


Ballast potential to be dynamic utilising mid point float/sink to activate lever up in mechanism


Moving across pool of water 
Contained restricted freedom within container (possible floating with another)
Then onward


Future discoveries addition heat with and exploration of currents formed to activate change


Bobbing spring of a float pressed then released


Mechanical exploring dynamic ballast 
Thread or chain like-between water and air undulation exploited through mechanism partial release from gravity


Natural reference larvae like air bubble finding shape in surrounds
Share out 
Ascertain what this towards
Multiplicity 
Individual unit reaction then unified to whole


Approach- simplicity - multiplicity - combination
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