FG-008 Study for “Landscape & Death,” 2009; Photo
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Location of site and studies of ‘pataphysics and domesticity in a rural / semi-rural setting is explored in relation with mechanism and time. Early studies in geology and archeology are investigated as design opportunities involving spatial development. Northern Scotland’s “Findhorn Foundation” is a spiritual community which introduces the idea of “fact” & “fiction” with the introduction of their famed “40-lb. cabbages” herein seen as spiritual oddities. Early project texts, including “Relative Conceptions” are generative technics attempting to understand ideas of location and object
FG-009 Study for “Findhorn Foundation,” 2009; courtesy: findhornfoundation.org
FG-010 Study“Geomorphic Emplacement Mechanism,” courtesy uni-potdsdam.de
The Lost Object One might say the quest for things is an unending journey, that humankind has already—in one form or another—seen the presence of objects before they appear. The second meeting between a person and an object is merely what one wil have the opportunity to remember. The quest is often comprised of one’s perseverance to find the object as well as an eventual loss, find, or foregone conclusion. The lost object is— at best—a journey of discovery where one never truly finds the object in quest, rather fragments of subjects and objects within a time-based allotment. It exists outside of the object. With the lost object, a piezoelectric analog is attempted to try and enact a series of objects or events by means of a non-human impressionable object. The aim is to remember a lost environment through piezoelectricity and to transform its resonant frequency into an actualized, composed object in space. This is seen as a situational survey, rather than a quantitative assemblage of phase-change materials such as carbon dating or other chemical processes which affect surface character or result in spotted analysis samplings due to their methods of enquiry. One can imagine an age-old placement of lost oxygen pockets which enabled a civilization to flourish, or perhaps to rejuvenate plant / animal life in better grasping the deeper understanding of nature, rather, of Findhorn’s spirit within nature. One could use the inherent property of piezoelectric cells to foresee or to remember the ‘what was’ based upon their impressions in an environment— it acts as an analog to review this information. The apparatus for piezoelectric crystal analysis (“detection of resonant frequency from a change of impedence”) is based upon the Piano Foundations’ composition of measurement which includes: 1) “A crystal-controlled oscil ator for measuring the resonant frequency of the specimens” 2) “A capacitance bridge for determining their equivalent circuits and dielectric constant; and” 3) “An adjustable electrode-system, and a capacitance bridge, for the measurement of thermal expansion” (Station 1957) The apparatus is placed into a remote, dilapidated field in London where, from visual inspection, an overall sense is the aforementioned condition where foliage is of no existence. The crystal or ceramic attenuating material is placed into the apparatus which is fixed with rigid connectors to the ground’s surface. A series of conductors are probed approximately 24 inches into the ground’s surface which are wired to a transducer. These probes attenuate frequency to the cells based upon their impressions from insertion, placement, and extraction as well as from soil alkalinity and pressure. During the analysis, the user wil set and monitor dielectric constants for positive measurement of results. After one week’s readings at 24 hours / day (oneminute intervals), results are postulated into 3D computer scripting which respectively plots the analysis of the crystals in x, y, z, and t directions. The determinants of t are based upon the ratio of probe placements (x, y, z) over one-minute intervals / one week duration. The resulting output format wil be demonstrated upon further investigation of work.
FUTURE SOUP What about our changing roles in society—our observance of structures and changes in technological production, bricks, bionic assemblage, lost keys and bad memories, our reliance on foreign cabbage, and the inquisitive nature of cyberspace and cybernetics?
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