Friday 29 March 2013

The Nature of Place and what is place?

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Place is 3 dimensional which we're perfectly aware of in the modern age through computer technology and the cinematic experience, that wants to evolve and evolve, non touch 3 dimensional media and virtual reality. We're bombarded by reminders of the glory of our 3 dimensional existence, in every facet of the imagination, whether it is on a screen or images created through sound and modern music. It is an experience that has "length, breadth and depth." The body is defined by what is extended in 3 dimensions," and this technology in its own right is contained within various digital forums.

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What is death? Death is simply a forcible occurrence that returns us back to our sole completely and in total. Place is a difficult notion but no where near as complex as death. I defend Martin Heidegger on this subject. He explained the importance of Dasein which could also be interpreted as sole or spirit. It is a state by which we can see the colour, the shapes and the forms of our existence, as if through the light of a window or through the walls of a cave, which he discussed in 'The Basic Problems Of Phenomenology' in the section about prehistoric man and his affliction towards painting. The reason for Art is to let people into your sole through image making.

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It is impossible for place to be a body which renders space itself as formless, because the forms within spaces have volume, a shape and a mass. The Native Americans for instance created a set of laws for these entities, told stories and treated them in a spiritual and mathematical way, to ensure survival and understand the nature of their environment, because this planet is sometimes alien, with all sorts of mysteries. We consider it to be our home that we have claimed as a possession, that belongs to us, not to the spider, the fly and those creatures that we can't see, in the wild or beneath the oceans.

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