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WEEK NINE (2)
Sometimes the house grows and spreads so that, in order to live in it, greater elasticity of daydreaming, a daydream that is less clearly outlined, are needed. "My house," writes Georges Spyridaki, "is diaphanous, but it is not of glass. It is more the nature of vapor. Its walls contract and expand as I desire. At times, I draw them close about me like protective armor .. But at others, I let the walls of my house blossom out in their own space, which is infinitely extensible. Spyridaki's house breathes. First it is a coat of armor, then it extends ad infinitum, which amounts to saying that we live in it in alternate security and adventure. It is both cell and world. Here geometry is transcended." (Bachelard)
Name
Name your house ( .. House) or (House of .. ) The name is short and inspired by your memory research. Examples: "Dream House", "Phantom House", "House of Fugue". (2-4 words, Arial 16)
Write
Your Tale has evolved. Choose a), b) or c) for your improved script. (300 words, Arial 12)
a) The story takes place in the House.
b) It is a House for the characters of your story
c) The House appears in the story
Collect
Collect Hans Bellmer sculptures. (Images/google : hans bellmer poupee) Include all body parts in your collection of images. Size to human scale 1/2" = 1'-0" and print b/w. Carefully trace as outline drawing, pencil on vellum using curve templates. Mount series of images and traces as 36" strip.
Read
Oliver Sacks : Phantoms
Dislocate Sm
From your choreographic photo study select one act of dislocation. Identify and document the two joinery pieces involved. Xerox, then draw sections of the two pieces in their joined and open state. Inscribe lamination and introduce a boundary box. The boundary box for the open state is twice the size of that for the closed state. Overlay the sections with a drawn speculation on how two pieces dislocate according to their innate tectonic structure. How do the pieces themselves aerate, how are they dispersed ? Consider the laminar structure of pieces. Consider self similarity; the joint reveals its character on a smaller scale.
Build the dislocation in bass wood at your highest level of craft.
[In Week Eleven your Volume of Jointed Tales will disassemble in an expanded field of play. The Solid state is aerated, the volume is doubled. "Dislocate Sm" is a testing ground for the larger operation]
[[Hans Bellmer is best known for the life-sized female dolls that he produced in the mid-1930s and which he obsessively photographed over the next decade. His first doll, begun in 1933, was the image of an adolescent girl, made of papier-maché and plaster molded over an armature of wood and metal. The entire body could be assembled and reassembled like a machine. .. The dolls are represented in a constant state of mutation, multiplication, and recombination, often appearing contorted or bound, and occasionally lacking body parts or sprouting extra sets of limbs. icp ]]
.: Jonas 1:00 PM
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