oh,dear! What's this cut, and the tectonic features, with the two rectangular man-made(?)door way, such an abstract combination! And the connection to the Hanging Coffin, which i will visit next week in southern Sichuan.
This photo, which was taken only a short distance from my flat, shows a section of the sandstone face of the old quarry that became St James (cathedral) cemetery. The man-made 'walls' bear many inscriptions (made by quarry workers?), some of which are expertly inscribed and evidently date from the late 18th century.
These two blocks of cut stone, which are quite substantial, have always intrigued me. Perhaps they mark the entrances of tombs, or they indicate a desperate attempt by Victorian architects, to prevent a shift in the tilting stratification...?
Above this alarming feature is the neoclassical building named The Oratory (rhetorical utterance or expression; ...a place for private prayer). This itself could relate back to your earlier Chongqing posting showing a mouth and tongue...
your comments just waken up my lazy afternoon! As you talked what i feel in-advance my voice/word, as you said, "to prevent a shift in the tilting stratification", which just the same idea of Chinese sun-mao structure, i.e. the famous tenon-and-mortise work, but simply it used to prevent cracks to develop on a wooden furniture, and this should have a special name, but i spend all the afternoon to search on it, but failed in the end. I excited also when you continuing to develop my mouth and tongue idea, as i also learned different movement of shape of the tongue create each tone and sound, which called "language", and that's interesting to see how it works on The Oratory, I will continue study on it especially. I like the way we talk, rather using words, but more directly with images and graphics, and cases!
I agree with you about this form of communication (using images and graphics to respond) being very stimulating and ultimately creative. There have been so many interesting 'spin-offs' (associative ideas) through these postings that have set me thinking in new areas. Let's keep this going. Maybe others will begin to react and contribute their own ingredients to this creative soup.
The e-space lab project is exploring how internet connections between people in diverse urban and international contexts can enable a dialogue that helps make more meaningful a reciprocal representation of what the conditions of actual everyday life in different places really are. Many of the ideas, illusions and misrepresentations that shape our understanding of where and how other people live in places different from our own can fall away in this kind of dialogue, and also be replaced by a live and ongoing pattern of multiple alternative representations. The forms that we use range from the human voice (by Skype or phone), text, text messages, and images produced by digital cameras and mobile phones, video of course, and even to web pages and podcasts. We like to engage with these forms in a process of dialogue and exchange, using whatever resources are available, and exploring the potential of new tools as they come on stream, especially streaming video. As artists we are especially interested in the role the arts play in valuing practices and the human qualities that shape everyday life in the different places we find ourselves.
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oh,dear!
What's this cut, and the tectonic features, with the two rectangular man-made(?)door way, such an abstract combination!
And the connection to the Hanging Coffin, which i will visit next week in southern Sichuan.
shAw
This photo, which was taken only a short distance from my flat, shows a section of the sandstone face of the old quarry that became St James (cathedral) cemetery. The man-made 'walls' bear many inscriptions (made by quarry workers?), some of which are expertly inscribed and evidently date from the late 18th century.
These two blocks of cut stone, which are quite substantial, have always intrigued me. Perhaps they mark the entrances of tombs, or they indicate a desperate attempt by Victorian architects, to prevent a shift in the tilting stratification...?
Above this alarming feature is the neoclassical building named The Oratory (rhetorical utterance or expression; ...a place for private prayer). This itself could relate back to your earlier Chongqing posting showing a mouth and tongue...
Sean
your comments just waken up my lazy afternoon!
As you talked what i feel in-advance my voice/word, as you said, "to prevent a shift in the tilting stratification", which just the same idea of Chinese sun-mao structure, i.e. the famous tenon-and-mortise work, but simply it used to prevent cracks to develop on a wooden furniture, and this should have a special name, but i spend all the afternoon to search on it, but failed in the end.
I excited also when you continuing to develop my mouth and tongue idea, as i also learned different movement of shape of the tongue create each tone and sound, which called "language", and that's interesting to see how it works on The Oratory, I will continue study on it especially.
I like the way we talk, rather using words, but more directly with images and graphics, and cases!
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shAw
I agree with you about this form of communication (using images and graphics to respond) being very stimulating and ultimately creative. There have been so many interesting 'spin-offs' (associative ideas) through these postings that have set me thinking in new areas. Let's keep this going. Maybe others will begin to react and contribute their own ingredients to this creative soup.
Sean
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