Physics Suspended
Solar system
Cosmic levitation
Incongruity
A semiotic artifact invites us to engage in a process of interpretation.
“I’m not disillusioned. I’m just not illusioned, either.” – Bob Dylan
Suspended
Indeterminate space
Sense of liminality
State of flux
The hangers are not fixed entities, but rather manifestations of an underlying spiritual activity, a ceaseless process of creation and dissolution.
“Art is expression of impressions, not expression of expressions.” – Benedetto Crocea
Eternal Return of the Shadow
Relentless sun
Ephemeral forms
Fleeting instant
A tapestry woven by the threads of time, each moment is a stitch in the grand design.
“The eternal recurrence is the heaviest burden to bear. But it is also the greatest gift. It makes everything light, everything beautiful, everything sacred.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
Polyphonic Discourse
Metaphysical undercurrent
Pulsates beneath
The surface
The chairs, sculpted from a material that appears both solid and translucent, possess an uncanny quality, a sense of being caught between states of being.
“Understanding is a response to a sign with signs… Understanding is to take not a point of view, but a position in the ongoing dialogue.” – Mikhail Bakhtin
Hanging of Nothings
Row of empty arms
Waiting for something
To hold
Metaphysics is about seeing the unseen, hearing the unheard, knowing that even in emptiness there’s something there.
“All I can do is be me, whoever that is.” – Bob Dylan
Porcelain Equine
Distillation selection
Salient features
Manufactured entity
Our cognitive capacities far exceed the limited input we receive from the environment.
“It’s not that I have any evidence that I’m right, but it’s not that other people have any evidence that they’re right either.” – Noam Chomsky
Linguistic Artifact
Visual syntax
Contingent nature
Temporal entity
The logic of aesthetic experience is the syntax of the image.
“The most perfect logic to be found is in the play of imagination. “ – Charles Sanders Peirce
Transparent Membrane
Embrace fluidity
Space of relations
State of encounter
The liquid form, with its malleable, ephemeral quality, becomes a metaphor for the fluidity of being itself.
“The artist no longer confronts a raw material, but already coded objects.” – Nicolas Bourriaud
Skeletal Architecture
Surrounding mist
Shroud of indeterminate depth
Obscures the horizon
A solitary figure confronts the vast indifference of the universe, a microcosm of our own existential predicament.
“Great power or strength is one of the characteristics of the sublime.” – Edmund Burke
Complexity and Emergence
Apparent simplicity
Intricate workings
Underlying systems
Perception is not a direct transcription of reality but a subjective interpretation, a dance between the observed and the observer.
“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.” – Anaïs Nin