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February 19, 2008
Flux
The yin-yang represents a balance between opposite yet complimentary forces. Dichotomies can be seen everywhere and are in constant flux. Both sides are needed to create harmony. Life is a delicate balance between good/bad, light/dark, male/female, negative/positive etc. etc. etc... the list goes on forever.
Symmetry, patterns, order, pervade the universe. Who am I to break this fundamental rule. My project will be aimed at mimicking the profound depth of symmetry found all around us. This principle lies at the heart of all I consider sacred. Just like a crystalline structures in Supervision, the symmetry sometimes depends on the frame. My project goal is to take multiple photographs and overlay them in a way that reframes an ordinary object so as to bring out its symmetrical perfection in a way not normally perceived. More on this later....
My place in this delicate balance is to somehow reach a compromise between opposites. I don't know who said it, but it is true "in everything, moderation is key"
Is the cat there or not?
It seems to me that he both is and is not there. The cat doesn't exist at any one point in time, it exists at all points in time. The question of whether he is laying against the wall is impossible to answer because of flux.
Other examples of flux
Smoke
A lava lamp
Posted by ryanhoff at February 19, 2008 07:31 PM
Comments
The idea that both sides of a dichotomy are needed to achieve and maintain harmony is very appealing for advocating wholeness.
I'm also attracted to a notion of reaching compromises between opposites
There is also an appealing neatness in theories of opposites.
Other theories try to to deal with a placement and compromises within arrangements and patterns in which there is not necessarily an opposite to every position, multi-sided instead of two-sided structures, single-sided structures, and some ideas of scale seem not to work well with theories of opposites --that is to say that, bifurcating systems need not bifurcate evenly --there may not be a one-to-one relationship between what exists; some theories allow for unequal distribution of entities across scale; all infinities are not the same size yet are just as infinite
yet these approaches (seem to) converge in a generalized support of wholeness (or harmony), a sense that the known parts contribute something --this is very related to considerations of symmetry in which connections and links between entities (a connection of opposites is one example of a link, but is not the only form of link) extend each entity, this extension making a constantly shifting, as links shift, symmetrical map --a kaleidoscopic map that turns, shifts revealing a wide range of patterns.
A theory of opposites is a wonderful model that fits beautifully (harmoniously) into a kaleidoscopic map of shifting existences.
I like the implications associated with the cat existing at no particular point in time. I'd love to hear more of what you have to say concerning points in time, and the difference in the cat's relationship to time and the wall's relationship to time.
Posted by: thyliasm at March 4, 2008 10:12 AM
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