2025.12.10
 
work in progress
2024.12.10
451 Rhawn Gallery
2022.12.10
From The Discovery of Piranesi's Final Project
10 December 2022 Saturday
Piranesi's death was a very private event, hence all the public knew was rumor and hearsay. The surviving letters about Piranesi's death clearly demonstration that those outside the family had no idea of what actually happened.
Yes, texts are important in rendering a "correct" history, but what has been written down is only a small fraction of all that happens in a day.
The Piranesi text that I first interacted with is Il Campo Marzio dell'Antica Roma's "Catalogo." It's essentially a compilations of the texts Piranesi read as preparation for "planning" the Campus Martius. It is there, in the "Catalogo," where one finds Piranesi's actual ichnographic intention.
Now, regarding the differing views of Pesto: Francesco wished for the views to be real-time depictions, i.e., a "snap-shot" of a single moment, whereas Piranesi wanted a somewhat über-baroque depiction, i.e., first the cows were here, then there, then over there, together all at once. What you get is real-time/space-time-continuum (= the birth of modern).
And, did you read what Miers wrote 210 years ago today? Who knew Thursday meetings at Abington Friends in 1812 even had the occasional theater of the absurd. Maybe I'll go photograph at Abington Friends next Thursday. Yes.
I haven't been planting any clues, not intentionally, and at least not yet. Anyway, what would the clues be for? I've just been finding clues and following their leads. Successfully, I think.
2018.12.10
17:04
2013.12.10
13121004.db 30th Street Station Railyard studies IQ4 IQ7 ICM mirror-copies Pyramids axonometric (-70,0,-20)
2008.12.10
Poll: Does an architect lose credibility if s/he can't draw?
"Of course, if drawing by talking becomes a reality, then the main issue will be the gift of gab."
2006.12.10
40 Jahre später, Le Corbusier´s "letztes Werk" (DE)
Einstein + Einstein = Zweistein
Zweistein + Zweistein = Neuschwanstein
Neuschwanstein + Neuschwanstein = Vierzehnheiligen
You do the math!
2005.12.10
What are you reading?
Bloomingdale's Book of Home Decorating by Barbera d'Arcy. Copywright 1973 First edition.
   
2002.12.10
Re: Sentimental Journey
..."So, could it be said that sentimentality (the derided type) would be an aspiration to or representation of another time, agenda, lifestyle, etc.?" the answer seems to be that sentimentality is never necessarily the type of aspiration you describe, however, a sentimental reenactment is very likely an "aspiration to or representation of another time, agenda, lifestyle, etc." And here the "game" of degrees of separation becomes compounded. While pondering all this I took it to an extreme and came up with the idea of "The Stretch-Mark Paintings" where it is very probably just as possible to get at the truth by really working at stretching it, which demonstrates that opposite extremes lead to different but equally effect outcomes.
Now, thinking of the position of "ersatz", it could be said that where oral history is still memory/reenactment, written history is the substitute for oral history. Written history is, and has been for several millennia now, the primary modus operandi of (maintaining) culture, therefore (contemporary) culture already works mostly within the realm of a substitution.
I am a substitute, therefore I am?
Philadelphia Museum of Art
        
outside looking in
2001.12.10
land of truths?
...the recent phrase "and not a oak tree to be seen, less, land of oak trees" has resonated in my mind since reading it. Albeit sad, its truth can hardly be disputed. It really does make one think about what's real and what isn't. For example, does Philadelphia ever truly live up to it's name which means brotherly love? Or does New York have much to do with Old York (which I assume is York, England)?
Quite by accident (on Friday) I found a new book entitled The Geometry of Love by Margaret Visser. This book is all about the church St. Agnes Outside the Walls, Rome. Visser essentially describes every aspect of the church, and in so doing delivers an amazing portrait of a single place and all its (space/time) meaning.
In yesterday's NYTIMES, the article about Philadelphia's new concert hall begins with describing Philadelphia as "a city that time often seems to have forgotten." Maybe I should start referring to myself as Steve, from Tempobliviopolis.
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