strapping

Held In Tension by Justin Harrison


Spent some time considering the construction of Iranian Dome Tents. The role that tension plays in holding and creating form and structure. Strapping and Poles, Rope and Pegs. Inside the tent there are straps that don’t just hold the frame in tension, but also hold meaning unique to each clan through the design woven into it.

I wonder if there is a link to the tension in binary definitions of writing and the potential for there to be ‘Undecidability’

It makes me want to create straps that hold a pole in constant tension. A form of restraint or connecting ‘a’ to ‘b’ - which might also link to Godel’s theorem of the included middle. How something can be a and b and not a or b at the same time. Some form of interdependent relationship of ‘a’ and ‘b’ and ‘not a or b’

Possibly leather straps and white stripped or black charred, green wood poles. These could increase in complexity to describe more complex relationships that use tension.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuzipuvXULg