Fire
“It is the thunderbolt that steers the course of all things.” Heraclitus, Fragment 64 (transl. John Burnet) that was also attached to the door of Martin Heidegger’s Hut in Todnauberg
39 Fire
50 On Energy
Josep Lluís Mateo
Wilfried Wang
“Out of a river of fire, all manner of shapes later materialize and solidify.”
“In so-called primitive times, when energy was not easily available, people had to devise ways of using a minimal amount of material to try to capture and stabilise the energy from climatic variables.”
50 Journey into the Fire
Chasper Schmidlin “The boat bore the name Eraclide. It made us think of the philosopher’s doctrine, according to which fire was the reason for the existence of all things; a fire which, like the sun, continually rejuvenates and dies.”
52 Fire and Light
Stan Allen “Without light, there is no definition of form. Light itself has many forms, and it is the infinite malleability of light that is so extraordinary.”
42 Danger and Debility 44 Sublime and Picturesque 46 Infrastructure
58 Bruder Klaus
Peter Zumthor “With time, the design became clear and elemental: light and shadow, water and fire, matter and transcendence; below, the earth, above, the open sky.”
44 Strombolicchio 46 Lava 48 Across the Land and the Water
W. G. Sebald 50 Light and Heat
Manfred Sigrist Walter de Maria, Ligthning Field, 1977 Catron County, New Mexico commissioned by the Dia Center for the Arts
“For natural scientists, fire is the release of stored chemical energy in two ways: one is light, the other heat.”
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