Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Thought as Entity-The black and whites


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The idea, quite simply was to get off the computer and draw. Draw by intuition and feel rather than calculated decisions filtered through a keyboard and mouse. Record that intuition-the impulsive moment of the mark.  It occurred to me that through the physical act of recording the intuitive drawing process, that what is being recorded is essentially- thought, and the actual process of thought as it occurs. I began to wonder-Can thought be entity?
Thought is a force. No different than gravity or electromagnetism. Elusive in nature, thought has had more impact on man- made reality than all other forces combined. Without thought, it wouldn't matter if the world was flat or round and the idea that the earth revolves and orbits the sun wouldn't exist. Fire would remain a natural occurrence, and nothing more. The need to capture the essence of the world within which we exist with primitive pigments on the surfaces of caves would not exist. Without thought, humans, in our current identity, would not exist and the likelihood that humans, in any form, would survive the violence of evolutionary development is quite small.
 
Not only is thought a force, but it is creationary force in its purest, un-distilled form. Without thought, there is a void from which nothing is created. Without thought, all that exists exists outside the vacuum.

 Thought is different from all the other known forces in that it is of the mind, not of the earth, or the universe in all its physicality. As such, it transcends all the other known forces as it has no limits, is boundless in its potential and possibility. Being of the mind, thought is of the past, present and future. It is of the moment, -the impulse -as well as the infinite and deliberate. Thought is not only force but resource as well-a resource of the known and unknown, the intentional and unintentional, the one and the infinite. As a resource, thought becomes entity.

Thought as entity-can it be captured, recorded? More specifically, can the innate thought (of the mind, only of the mind, free from dilution by the process of making, and the history of making) be recorded?
 
The process through which the innate thought (entity) is discovered is by necessity, impulsive, immediate and intuitive. Anything else requires deliberation and is a product of refined intent-filtered by past experience, familiarity and prejudice. As such.....

The process becomes the thought, the thought becomes the entity (Process=thought=entity).

Initial purpose and intent must be absent in order for the (innate) thought as entity to occur. All marks recorded otherwise are filtered and diluted by user interface-interference.
The intent, the purpose, -the identity-is a product of the process which is...

 Intuition, rather than reason....

 Reactive rather than proactive....

 Exploratory rather than guided...

Impulsive rather than pre-meditated.


The result.... the outcome of the process is unknown, free from intent, an intrinsic product of the process-created by the process-unique in its conception, development, evolution and maturity.

Thought as Entity.


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 The Black and Whites were an effort to strip away all the noise, an almost meditative approach to the act of recording the mark. The identity, (the thought) evolves through the the grace of the sweeping line, the taper and thickness of the of the mark, and the contrast of black against white. The unmarked (the space between the notes if you will) is as important as the marked (the notes themselves). 
A few of the pieces, despite the category, do in fact contain a splash of color, and "noise" is evidident in a few as well. These might be considered hybrids-different capture methods in the search for thought as entity. I've included them in this post as I see them as different accents of the same language. Also, to deny them the color and noise that the process seemed to call for, was akin to interference with their evolution, and a guidance of their identity. Each thought has its own personality, its own identity. Who am I to interfere with its creation? 




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