Matter into matter into matter…
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Everything moves, shifts - from place to place or time to time - the gradual transformation of matter into matter into matter. Thoughts become words, stones become water - decay of one forming the particles that make up the other. For the Base Elements residency I propose to trace these links through the journeys of the pieces that connect each thing to another. To draw out the familiar patterns weaving through all things and examine how scientific principles lend support to these existential philosophies and social theories.
This is where the project started; it's launch point, however already that course has shifted. From conversations on the subject it became clear that the idea of scientific theories lending support to existential philosophies is impossible. They may mirror or appear to correlate with one another and we can perceive the similarities, but a scientific theory can only lend support to another theory that also sits within the realm of science, likewise we cannot place an existential idea within the framework of science. They exist as separate structures, which we utilise in our attempts to understand the world. They're linked in a pursuit of understanding but their languages and methods are so different that to attempt to link them is both unachievable and dare I say it unnecessary, unless one is dogmatic enough to view the world only through one schemata.
The idea of tracing the journeys of things has been enlightened by my reading of quantum theory, in imagining all things as simply events within space time, that everything has movement within it, but I no longer feel the need to acquire support for poetic ideals from established scientific theories. Where the project now develops will be influenced by the ideas and theories of the quantum world but will not attempt to link directly with them.
Through the residence I want to draw out the poetic life underlying and within even the seemingly most immovable objects, a stone as part of a mountain, its future one of erosion and gradual decay, hard becoming soft, the passage into grains of sand.
Any comments
on this line of enquiry are most welcome
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