I had quite
a wonderful meeting today with Dr Malcolm Longair which turned into something
that happens quite rarely in my life a meaningful, challenging, fruitful tutorial.
The experience heightened my sense of
responsibility around the language I use and caused me to reflect on the
slippage of meaning available for and used by an artist but not a scientist. I
have been thinking about the idea of principle
1. a fundamental truth or proposition that serves as the foundation for
a system of belief or behaviour or for a chain of reasoning. 2. a general
scientific theorem or law that has numerous special applications across a wide
field. From the late 14c meaning origin, source, beginning; a rule of conduct.
Very different from belief, I feel that there is a link but the gap between the
two is intriguing. While I am in this zone it is interesting to consider the
relationship between an axiom and a rule. This idea of the gap of meaning is
manifesting itself within the objects and animations I am making currently that
show the movement between two states. Coming from crystallography and the
process of categorisation through symmetry operations the pieces mirror the
space of mental linguistic gymnastics that is used to shift or transfer from
one word or state to another, a translation of sorts.
I feel
today has been a transit point - there are many stages or phases to a project.
This one has purposely set out within its structure to try and break from my
conventions by embedding within it notions of not knowing as a route map. I
feel it is now time to know.
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