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@nickkahler / nickkahler.tumblr.com

chronicling an eclectic labyrinth of architectural contemplation based in new york city
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These days our definition of it is mainly art informed by other art and art history. Especially in the last two centuries — and tenaciously of late — art has examined its own essences, ordinances, techniques, tools, materials, presentational modes, and forms. To be thought of as an artist someone must self-identify as one and make what they think of as art. This center cannot hold. Why? It is far too tight to let real art breathe.

Jerry Saltz, “The Tyranny of Art History in Contemporary Art,” 2016

#jerry saltz#tyranny#art history#contemporary art#art#time#essence#ordinance#technique#tool#material#model#form#mode#artist#breathe#exploration#idea#concept
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Bane to the new privatized public space is quietness, slowness, whimsy, stillness, different rhythms, anything uneasy, aimless, inner-directed, accidental, odd, or antithetical to being “purpose-built.” There’s no room for silence here. Users of these new spaces are bullied for the duration of time spent here, kept busy, stimulated, programmed like robots and kindergartners. Here the mind dies, memory rapidly decays into some monotonous, impoverished tedium. People here are not immersed but deeply controlled, reduced to audience, made intensely passive by these prison houses and hamster wheels of showmanship. Everything is so planned and ordered that the imagination and emotions are driven out of these spaces.

Jerry Saltz, “The Problem of Public Art,” 2015

#jerry saltz#quote#bane#public space#quiet#slow#still#whimsy#rhythm#silence#duration#program#programming#people#control#audience#mind#exploration#memory#decay#tedium#prison#imagination#emotion
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When I say self-portrait, it's a very poetical approach, because in any case where I'm trying to copy or reproduce my face, it's more the concept in which we can dream about our perfect conditions; that means what could be our home, or our relationship with others, or what could protect me from society. In most of my work I'm trying to explore myself in those ideas and in some of them that is more evident.

Jaume Plensa, "Lecture at Davidson College," Davidson, NC, 2014

#jaume plensa#portrait#self-portrait#poetry#copy#reproduction#condition#dream#home#relationship#society#protection#exploration#evident#quote#art
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For most architects graphic representation is notional, technical, or illustrative and mainly used as an analytical tool to record design intentions. I consider drawing more as a way of exploring the physical and psychological state of inclusion, suggesting that buildings can be fragmentary and ambiguous, as opposed to conventionally functional and determinate.

James Wines, "On Drawing," c. 2000

#james wines#drawing#graphics#representation#graphic representation#notation#record#design#intent#design intent#ambiguous#function#determinism#tool#analysis#exploration#architecture#art#examination#physical#psychology#inclusion#state
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Rosetta, Comet 67P / Churyumov-Gerasimenko, 2014 (via esa)

Architectural explorations abound for potential dwellings on larger astronomical bodies (planets and moons), but much less attention has been paid to inhabiting smaller elements such as comets and asteroids. Lack of atmosphere and gravity as well as the presence of complex orbit or trajectory taking it away from a dedicated, comprehensible heat source (like a star) certainly contribute to this pragmatic disinterest. However, futurists or Stanley Kubrick or Hunter S. Thompson enthusiasts might find riding this hog of a heavenly body to provide quite a thrill, especially if the trajectory posits eventual returns to Earth. However, the sheer time it would take for this ride to be perceived as anything but a silent dance in rotating light and dark probably prohibits much speculation. 

#architecture#dwelling#rosetta#comet#space#astronomy#european space agency#exploration#planet#moon#asteriod#trajectory#gravity#science#stanley kubrick#hunter s. thompson#earth#spacetime#time#light#dark#dance
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Map of the Poles of Inaccessibility, c. 2000

'A pole of inaccessibility marks a location that is the most challenging to reach owing to its remoteness from geographical features that could provide access. Often it refers to the most distant point from the coastline. The term describes a geographic construct, not an actual physical phenomenon. Subject to varying definitions, it is of interest mostly to explorers.'

#map#exploration#pole of inaccessibility#world#earth#continents#continent#ocean#landmass#water#geography#cartography
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They traded with us and gave us everything they had, with good will...they took great delight in pleasing us..They are very gentle and without knowledge of what is evil; nor do they murder or steal...Your highness may believe that in all the world there can be no better people...They love their neighbours as themselves, and they have the sweetest talk in the world, and are gentle and always laughing.

Christopher Columbus, "On the Taíno People," 1492

#trade#exploration#history#culture#anthropology#evil#western civilization#neighbor#imperialism#spanish empire#christopher columbus#quote
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