27 February
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1995.02.27
Re: WTC design study
2003.02.27 11:02
Re: Cremaster Cycle
2003.02.27 16:17
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Re: categories...
2003.02.27 15:30
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Re: WTC design study
2003.02.27 11:02
Now I get it. The whole WTC design event so far is more than anything a museum of lobbies(?).
In the [virtual] future, there will be a series of online exhibits at www.museumpeace.com beginning with:
Museum Collecting Point One: Monument Hystérique.
Ms. Curious:
"So what do you do?"
Mr. Nimiety:
"I collect museums."
Re: categories...
2003.02.27 15:30
Hi Joshua,
Chronosomatics as an idea first occurred to my while I was living in Washington DC during the summer 1981. The Masolino Annunciation in the National Gallery got me thinking about why the column is right in the middle of the picture, and indeed divides the picture in half. (I went to the National Gallery often at night that summer because I had nothing else to do.) Coming to the conclusion that the painting was symbolically depicting the union of God and humanity somehow clicked with the notion that this moment in time coincided with where the human body's legs become the torso. This became a kind of culmination of lots of prior thinking/doing.
I was first introduced to the notion that the design of the body represents something meaningful when I read chapter 8 of The Architecture of Humanism during the summer of 1975.
I became very popular as a freshman architecture student when I demonstrated that I had a very good understanding of human body proportions.
It was in 1979 that I first drew a standing human figure within a series of circle/square conjunctions (independent of chronosomatics, rather related to architectural design theory).
During my thesis semester of architecture school (spring 1981), I shared studio space with a close friend that was designing a center for art history and using a painting by della Francesca, The Baptism of Christ as conceptual inspiration, and he spoke a lot about the duality of the painting. When I saw the Annunciation painting in Washington, I continued to ask the questions regarding duality that my friend was asking.
Between autumn 1981 and autumn 1994, I occasionally told a friend or two about this theory I have. It was worthwhile seeing how I could communicate the theory verbally and how easily the theory was grasped by those listening. Subsequent questions about the theory always led to further ideas. [I tried to record as much of this 'oral history' as I could in my notes.]
October 1994, I decided to write the theory down (via notes). I had no idea at the time how developed the theory would get, especially the notion of human imagination reenacting physiological processes.
You could say that chronosomatics is the best example of my thoughts on faith and empirical knowledge. For me, one reinforces the other.
My interests in saints and calendrical coincidences stem from my research of St. Helena and the history of the Constantine Christian Church building boom 312 to 329. The first day I ever heard/read of St. Helena was 1 April 1999, Holy Thursday, the 5th anniversary of the death of my close friend that questioned duality (Dave died 1 April 1994, Good Friday that year, and the first person I ever told "this theory I have"), and that night during his first panic attack in four years, my brother reenacted the Agony in the Garden by asking me to sit and watch as he tried to fall asleep. Sleep never happened. Then my brother asked me to help bathe him. It was a very emotional day. Many more calendrical coincidences have been recorded by me since then.
I have not heard of Shamrock Tea before.
Steve
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