projekts:
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ashley will be in the atlanta metropolitan area from 21.12.2005-27.12.2005; will any other members of the work.group be available for offline discussion, cafe, and collards/black beans/cous cous?
tagged: georgia, non-virtual, public-appearance
conducting bodies, con’t:
tagged: claude-simon, island, mapping, non-euclidean, roosevelt
this drawing takes various formal icons culled from the conducting bodies drawings and begans to strew them across the site, overlapping and interspersing diverse functions and giving initial prepositional strings to thread them into one another. this one is specious in its consistency and grounding to previous discussed principles, but i just wanted to take a first stab at something, to ‘work through some things,’ and i will try to be less fast and loose in the future.
also might be interesting to drum up a discussion about the role or position of the renwick ruins in the project.
tagged: island, plan, prepositions, punctuation, roosevelt, text
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our themes of urban squalor and pedestrian hand scrawlings failed to impress the jury; the work.group lost at developing ’self-sufficient’ housing. maybe we will roll this into a ‘feature’ someday.
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tagged: diy
ulysses
james joyce
it may seem fruitless to convince anyone that this is a worthy text. apart from its profound effect on my interests of structuring complex solutions and deep relationships, and the potential multiplicity of forms and shades of meaning and reference, i have a much more personal, although no less covered by the critics, affinity for the text, that is the transformation of the ordinary man and his ordinary activities into the stuff of beauty and universal resonance. of course this investment is completed through the tools i discussed above, but the human idea, that the things we see every day, and the things we eat, read, say, and touch carry the poetic depth and heroic potential as observed by someone like homer or joyce, has formed the largest core of my world outlook, and my will to live.
acquire this text: powells.com
tagged: representation, texts
178 brutaldildos
090 ashley ann rios
076 brutaldildo
022 carlos scarpa
020 ashley anne rios
014 brutaldildo.com
012 brutaldildos pass
010 villa savoye plans
010 perry kulper
006 villa savoye plan
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tagged: fun, search-terms
considering the notion of ‘ruins’ and casual mention of ‘traces’, both by visitors and the river, these maps display an interest in affecting the landscape of the island over time. taking advantage of the tidal motion of the ‘river’, alluvium is accreted around groynes, cables, nets, rip rap, etc, terraforming new features on southpoint gradually. i don’t foresee attemping to scuplt the island to such a degree that navigation on the river is blocked; the scale would be such that visitors would notice changes over time, and may take part in the sculpture. folks can place items/bouys which will be stirred/carried by the moving water/earth; the traces made by and upon these artifacts would reflect the marks of time on the ruins. as new areas appear and sink, folks will discover new vistas towards the u.n., landings for a dinghy, or a place to cup some east river water to their lips. i hope to peep into this w/ some sections (not to scale), to follow in this page later this week.
tagged: earthworks, island, roosevelt