#big.bang

2015-05-04 17:33 // RACK-MOUNTED TRANSFORMERS thing from compressor > all behind the scenes stuff, hidden away > design of each element is functional, hermetic, and modular > it’s not necessary to understand each (or any) of these elements in order to operate the machine // An Idea Generator! > or an explainer, perhaps; like trying to reverse engineer something // Kind of like how we attempt to understand the origins of the Big Bang > String Theory > attempts to bring together theories relating to the infinitesimally big and infinitesimally small // Organic computing > use plasticine like Robert Kilppel with the circuitry bits > Frankenstein or Ash > creation of life. 

2015-05-05 08:10 HHGttG > the mice are "merely the protrusion into our dimension of hyper-intelligent pan-dimensional beings" who were responsible for the Earth's creation > the finger of God in The Creation of Adam by Michelangelo can be similarly viewed, haha > Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives offers a similar (although perhaps not quite so irreverent) interpretation of religious themes 

Fiddling in the studio yesterday taking apart the transformer rack, I became keenly away of how each element is functional, hermetic, and modular. Although my process with Time Machine and Short-Range Invisibility Gumboots was “determined to a large extent, or at least informed, by what was at hand and of the right thread and diameter, et cetera", I’m not sure that this approach is applicable to the transformers as (other than the wires) they only fit each other. Given this and their size, the idea of monumentality can only be explored on a small scale using these objects. 

Henri, however, had brought along a couple books on Robert Klippel who incorporated plasticine and bits of model kits into his sculptures, which, when photographed and presented in an A4ish-sized artist book, appeared monumental in scale though were depicted at, or about, a 1:1 scale.