Inscribable Indescribability

The Impossible Describability of a Universe without Language (L), A Schematic Silence (R)

2018, Adhesive vinyl and clock movement kits (reversed) on discrete moving walls, 96” by 66’ each

The Impossible Describability of a Universe without Language

2018, Adhesive vinyl and clock movement kits (reversed) on discrete moving wall, 96 by 66 inches

A Schematic Silence (installation shot)

2018, Adhesive vinyl and clock movement kits (reversed) on discrete moving wall, 96 by 66 inches

The diagrams in this series are ideally installed on discreet portable wall units that seem to have fallen into this world out of nothing. I conceive of these as neither fully concepts nor aesthetic form but both as embodied architecture of thought. Seemingly, using the language of mathematics and certainty, these attempt to describe indescribable and absurd quantifications such as “sleep of the universe” or the distinction between “saving” and “wasting” one’s breath. Below is a brief excerpt from my manifesto on my interest in diagrams:

1. NEITHER WORD NOR IMAGE REPRESENTATION NOR SYMBOLISM NOR ABSTRACTION NOR FORM NOR CONTENT NOR EXPRESSION NOR INTROSPECTION NOR NONE OF THESE, BUT ALL OF THESE IN VARIABLE QUANTITIES.
2. EQUATE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN TWO OR MORE FORMALLY INCOMPATIBLE SYSTEMS BY TRANSCRIBING BOTH IN AN ABSTRACTED THIRD SPACE. THIS ALLOWS THE CREATION OF IMPOSSIBLE POSSIBLE FUTURES: PLY PARALLEL LINES TO MEET IN YOUR MIND; IMAGINE SPACE IN TERMS OF TIME; SILENCE IN TERMS OF WORD; WORD IN TERMS OF IMAGE.
3. CONFUSE CLAIMS OF TERRITORY BY FORM, SHED SPECIFICITY, AND CREATE A TEMPLATE OF FUNCTION WHICH MAY BE TRANSPLANTED FROM ONE SITUATION TO ANOTHER E.G. THE DIAGRAM OF THE ROLES OF POWER IN A PATRIARCHAL STATE ARE OFTEN REPRODUCED IN THAT OF AN IDEAL NUCLEAR FAMILY, AND OTHER INSTRUMENTAL INSTITUTIONS SUCH AS RELIGION, EDUCATION ETC. THIS TRANSVERSAL, HOWEVER, ALSO ENABLES SUBVERSION BECAUSE IT OPENS UP AN ‘ELSEWHERE’ WHEN ONE SYSTEM IS EXHAUSTED.
4. THE THIRD SPACE OF THE DIAGRAM WHILE FEATURING BOTH FORMS, IS NOT A SYNTHESIS. RATHER IT IS THE STAGE AFTER OBLITERATION OF ONE STATE AND BEFORE ACTUALIZING ANOTHER. IT CONTAINS BOTH THE AFTERMATH AND THE IMMINENT. IT IS DYNAMIC, AND UNFIXED, THUS DURATIONAL.
5. ONCE APPARENT, INTANGIBLE IDEAS PRESENT IN A DIAGRAM ARE STRETCHED INEVITABLY OVER MATERIAL FORMS, WHICH MAY OR MAY NOT BE FAITHFUL. THE ACT OF THIS TRANSCRIPTION, HOWEVER, IS THE DIAGRAM. IT IS AN ABSTRACTION WHICH CANNOT BE IMAGINED UNTIL PENNED DOWN. IT HAS THE POTENTIAL TO BE AS PLASTIC AS ANY OTHER MATERIAL EXPLORATION.
6. ONCE APPARENT, THE DIAGRAM ASSUMES A GENERATIVE ROLE ITSELF. ITS POTENTIALITY IS THE SITE AND INTERPRETER OF POSSIBLE FUTURES. THE DIAGRAM IS INSTRUMENTAL IN NATURE AND LIKE ALL INSTRUMENTS IT MAY EXHIBIT, ULTIMATELY, A MIND OF ITS OWN.