Multivoiced skyscraper
Of the streetscape
Architectural utterance
The windows offer glimpses into the building interior while silently broadcasting presence to the street below.
“The utterance lives by being answered, by being immediately included in the ongoing dialogue.” – Mikhail Bakhtin
Pursuit of experience
Consumption of signs
Assumptions and realities
The image of the staircase can be interpreted as a microcosm of the Baudrillardian concept of simulacrum.
“Photography is our exorcism. Primitive society had its masks, bourgeois society its mirrors. We have our images.” – Jean Baudrillard
Texture touch
Inanimate object
Interaction creation
Objects exist as an experience in relation to ourselves and our surroundings.
“The world is not a collection of objects, but a totality of lived experiences.” – Mikel Dufrenne
Inside out
Geometric planes
Ordered coordinates
Sometimes the best art in an art museum is the architecture.
“Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.” – Le Corbusier
Force of change
Objective world
Rather evolving
Existence is constantly striving to develop itself.
“The dialectic is the movement of thought from one stage to another, in which each stage is both a negation of the previous stage and a step towards a higher stage.” – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Processual view
Engage and transform
Contemplation or meditation
Shaping understanding, experiences and knowledge participate in the process of meaning-making.
“The world is a process in which the past is integrated with the present to create the future.” – Alfred North Whitehead
Engagement mode
Transcends confines
Sensory qualities
This heightened awareness of the sensory qualities of the world is accompanied by a sense of detachment from the practical concerns of everyday life.
“Art is not a matter of technique, but of vision.” – Mikel Dufrenne
Permanent transient
Impermanence
Found harmony
The appearance of existence holds a deeper meaning.
“Nature is impermanent and ever changing, but the spirit of man is eternal.” – Henry David Thoreau
Room beyond
Interconnectedness
Cycle of fragility
A reminder that we have the power to create our own environment and to shape our own destiny.
“Just as the plant is dependent on the sunlight, water, and nutrients that it receives from its environment, so too is the universe dependent on the interconnectedness of all its parts.” – Alfred North Whitehead
Contrast tension
Interpretation openness
Transience explored
Color, shape, line, and texture create an expressive composition.
“Abstract art is a reflection of the changing world around us.” – Wassily Kandinsky