metaphors of vision

imagine an eye unruled by manmade laws of perspective...
- stan brakhage

obstruction 5

it is only in that instant when the laws are silent that great actions erupt.
- marquis de sade

photograph to drawing...

some architecture collage examples...

these might fit best into a piranesi drawing...  [more here]

these ones are just cool... [more here]

belief in the age of disbelief

a collage approach, an approach in which objects are conscripted or seduced from out of their context, is –at present day– the only way of dealing with the ultimate problems of, either or both, utopia and tradition… — Colin Rowe and Fred Koetter, Collage City

cyprien gaillard, belief in the age of disbelief

insertions into ideological circuits

these objects are only relics. the work itself has no materiality. and it is ephemeral. it only exists when someone is interacting with it.
– cildo meireles, "interview"

montage and simultaneous presence. to redo the whole design every time. the instrument is the distracted gaze. the gaze which follows your head as it turns to talk to someone at your side or that looks for someplace to rest. it resembles the zig-zag of a fly buzzing about the middle of a room. the distracted gaze fixes these points and reconstructs a conjunctive fabric. there are no transitions.
– enric miralles, "el Interior de un bolsillo"

... the fortuitous encounter of an umbrella and a sewing machine on an operating table.
– comte de lautréamont

[more examples here]

libeskind, student work 1

libeskind, student work 2

on seeing

and see, and no longer blinded by our eyes.
- rupert brooke

discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
- marcel proust

vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.
- jonathan swift