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Livingness

3/1/2023

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As a unifying concept; that which gives the impression of being alive.

A puppet gives this when performed proficiently with technicality and skill.

An object can give this when referred to in a certain way.

A mechanism can have this when there are sufficient indications given through design, movement engineering, rhythm and form, so as to inspire an empathetic physical feeling/response in the viewer.

The notion of livingness draws together many strands of my creative research.

In my drawing this is suggested towards by a feeling of recognition within the composition, once this has happened now it is time to stop.

Livingnesses are hard to place, to define and/or to frame.

Floating bodies maintain this due to the physical inspiration/stimulus from and through the fluid they are within.

We are such a floating body.
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