everything is divisable

Imaginary Bundle 2 /  by Justin Harrison

Feels good to complete but feels incomplete///

I’m dubious of making the same work over and over again. Is it really valid? I know many artists will make a series of similar drawings exploring a theme, but somehow I feel uncomfortable to be making the same or similar drawing. I guess I am keen to see development and progression and if I am honest… then I don’t see any.

However there is a meditation in drawing that permits me to explore and think. Ideas are generate whilst drawing and it doesn’t seem to matter what the drawing is necessarily . I heard a curator say that ‘abstract art can get to heart of things’, and perhaps thats enough.

I’m also reading ‘Why we believe what we believe” by Andrew Newberg, I’m looking for an understanding of the construction of belief. As a neurologist he states that; Spinoza’s idea of intuition correlates with the way our brain creates a holistic image of the world.

“That intuition allows us to comprehend what the senses cannot perceive” and “we can enter into intuitive states through the act of meditation or prayer” and “These processes can enhance our lives by allowing us to circumvent the conceptual errors embedded in logic, reason or personal opinion. Intuition, creativity, and spiritual practice may all provide better means for apprehending reality and truth more accurately”

However I do also realise the inherent dangers of such a statement. Giving intuition the same gravitas as facts is really ‘buttering the eel’. (Made up metaphor). But I do like the idea of making space for intuition.

 

Imagined Bundle /  by Justin Harrison

There was a pleasure in the process of making the drawing, a simplicity to the rules, regularity and consistency that pleased some deeper part of my brain. I’ve returned to the drawing and still like it which is a good sign and want to make more - I feel like has something more to say. The drawings stand as preparation for more sculpture, a way of understanding and creating.

It also falls into the enquiries I’m currently connecting with ‘constituent parts’ and ‘everything is divisible’. Real and imagined. A physical wrangling with the ideas I’m wrestling with.

I’d like to go larger more obsessive in the repetition.

 

Derrida /  by Justin Harrison

"Great works [philosophy/literature/writing] transform the context of their reception and this takes time". Royle Nicholas - Jacques Derrida Routledge P73

What if writing or a work of art could physically change the space/ landscape around us because of the power of the text/ message/ essence of the meaning. Quantum physics - transforming the environment similar to the word? Observed particles behave differently///

Pharmakon poison and remedy, both or sacrifice (Human)//////

"Adrian Mróz, a Polish-American philosopher and musician, analyses its application to art and argues that pharmakon is any physical, mental, or behavioral object[7] which can cut (techne). In other words, pharmaka are agential and responsible for changes in consciousness." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmakon_(philosophy)

More reading in Pharmakon?///

Deconstruction

"Derrida has spoken of what impels his writing as a trembling, a 'shaking' or a 'soliciting'. He has written again and again, but always differently, about 'producing a force of dislocation that spreads itself throughout the entire system', about deconstruction as 'de-sedimantation', about a force of irruption that '[disorganises] the entire inherited order'" Royle Nicholas - Jacques Derrida, Routledge P25

"Even the most apparently simple statement is subject to fission or fissure. This is deconstruction as destabilisation always already on the move within. 'There is no atom', as Derrida remarks what is one of his most succinct and most quietly, subterraneously explosive formulations. Everything is divisible. Unity, coherence, univocality are effects produced out of division and divisibility. This is what gives rise to the elaboration of terms such as differance, iterability, the trace, the supplement"  Royle Nicholas - Jacques Derrida, Routledge P26

"It is about shaking up, dislocating, and transforming the verbal, conceptual, psychological, textual, aesthetic, historical, ethical, social, political, and religious landscape. It's concern is to disturb, to de-sediment, to deconstruct". Royle Nicholas - Jacques Derrida, Routledge P26

  • Print Derrida - A letter to a friend - read and pull threads about Phramakon, deconstruction, atoms, everything is divisible, constituent parts, diagrams. Liminal?

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