#conical intersect

Gordon Matta-Clark  (American, 1943-1978)

Conical Intersect, 1975

photograph, gelatin silver print, 26.99 cm x 39.69 cm

© Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Collection SFMOMA / www.sfmoma.org 

Conical Intersect —is a good example of the artist's literal "de-construction" of existing structures to reveal hidden or unexpected urban narratives. This work is a critical commentary on the transformation of a Parisian neighborhood as a new cultural center. Matta-Clark's painstaking perforation of a building about to be demolished is a sculptural and spatial statement, but it also provides a different way of looking at the city, a reminder that he studied architecture before turning to a full-time artistic practice.

i think that unfortunately, irregardless (c'mon adverbs) of how i act, i'll only feel like a nice & kind person if i disappeared from my social circle & moved away to where no one knows me [noting here, how japanese allows me to express this part of my character more easily]

but this begets the thoughts—well that's just because 1. the idea of my goodness or kindness is mired by the shame of being known 2.) a "fresh start" is escapism for the breadth of someone's living. tabula rasa doesn't consider the impasto (i cooka'da pasta))

also thinking about the etymology of kind being both "family", "innate", "native". perhaps it's because in my times of running away & escapism, i have found the family & kindness i have been searching for in what's called home (save for my #queerfoundfamily or whoeverthefuck my daily-life people are [hi reg]). but perhaps the change in actually being pretty amicable with my folks is rightly changing that & that trajectories exist best in vacuums. (crazy what queening out every now & again w/ your mum & pop can do)

quasi-sequitur: been considering the way words can be viewed from various perspectives as architectures. (that's not a high construction that's. just genuinely what i've been considering theoretically lately) in conversation with this thinking, also considering Gordon Matta-Clark' piece Conical Intersect, of which i'll place below: