Tues, November 14, 2000

Went into Vancouver downtown. Have been experimenting with figure and ground, especially the distortions apparently necessary to re-vision the human body (both its heroic and mythic relevance to civilization and architecture). Speaking of which I have been paying more and more attention to the play of light and shadow on any and all buildings/infrastructure (which includes cars) as well as the movement through any and all "architectural space" as it resonates with the mythic structures of body ie literacy of consciousness and pantheistic civilization, what I have coined the "Filmic Vision", which is really a new humanistic paradigm genetically encoded, it seems, in the very process of cognition and memory. And when I say "genetically" I mean that aesthetic awareness of any kind can effect human development at the genetic level, perhaps it was meant to, especially since cities would appear to the sculpt its citizens differently than small towns. As usual, I am making an incredibly simple comparison, but one I feel with far-reaching implications to the system by which all people assign and exchange all forms of "value" ie "systems of exchange built on promisary notes - promises to pay with real substance guaranteed by the Sun to the great Bank of Nature (I'm stealing this from someone, I'm sure he won't mind since he's probably dead, or gone to heaven. That is, the Filmic Vision effects language which we know is an incredibly malleable mythic structure, like the human soul. If I may, though, the small town resident seems plagued by an almost pathological narcissism - don't ask me to explain this just yet but it is as though the process of individuation is being borne entirely by a system of signs confined by narrow beliefs which dictate that the systems of signs must resist any and all change - i'm speaking of conservatism now and I prefer not to mislabel it as religion since when religion borders on conservatism it becomes conservatism. In fact, living in a town bosting so many "Christians" I see many who Jung would likely refer to as atheists or nihilists before he would designate but the smallest vestiges of spiritual/psychosexual development. All I can say, is thank God for Capitalism - the search for money seems to be the one healthy desire they promote. And to clarify, when I say "spritual" I simply mean (me and not Jung or anyone else) that the process of defining one's self in relation to both the body and the world outside or in relationship with the body is isomorphic to (or at least resonates with) the prevelant mythos of a given culture, which is our case is an entire planet and all of known and unknown human history - thank the gods for cinema and literature and art and architecture. What a paradoxical tragedy (speaking of the devaluation of myth and cosmic humanism in modern society) in that right when conservative traditions reach their weakest point all the archicture (sociopolitical to artifactual) breathes life back into the human soul and its eternal growth - proving once again for me that their is no such thing as entropy to the human form which is as close to God as we will ever get and the only way to get ever closer mmm A beautiful fall day with a touch of love in the air, I hope if someone reads this they don't think I'm some intellectual hippie cause "i've got my eye on the Jaguar" thank you very much. ...end.