materials & spaces [einstein's dream may 10th]
"Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator" -Antonio GaudÃ
THE DREAM SET is a space based on Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman. The excerpts are taken from May 10th 1905 where the following is a relation of how I translated the space from the dream:
It is late afternoon, and, for a brief moment, the sun nestles in snowy hollow of the Alps, fire touching ice. The long slants of light sweep from the mountains, cross a restful lake, cast shadows in a town below.
In many ways, it is a town of one piece and a whole. Spruce and larch and arolla pine form gentle border norht and west, while higher up are fire lilies, purple gentians, alpine columbines. In pastures near the town graze cattle for making butter, cheese and chocolate, A little textile mill produces silks, ribbons, cotton and clothes.
A snowglobe, surreal perfection of color, light and smell. Delightful sight. Botanical madness.
On this late afternoon, in these few moments while the sun is nestled in a snowy hollow of the Alps, a person could sit beside the lake and contemplate the texture of time. Hypothetically, time might be smooth or rough, prickly or silky, hard or soft. But in this world, the texture of time happens to be sticky. Portions of towns become stuck in some moment in history and do not get out. So, too, individual people become stuck in some point of their lives and do not get free.
Ice castles, snowflakes and acute angles of webbed transparencies. Stretched delicate silk. Layers and layers of thin frozen water slightly melting from thinly elegant rays of light.
The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy. The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present. Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.
Hot and cold, oil and water. Bright colors opaqued by overlapping frosted glass. Light refracted like crystals in between.
Instructors: Lisa Krohn/Rob Ball
THE DREAM SET is a space based on Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman. The excerpts are taken from May 10th 1905 where the following is a relation of how I translated the space from the dream:
It is late afternoon, and, for a brief moment, the sun nestles in snowy hollow of the Alps, fire touching ice. The long slants of light sweep from the mountains, cross a restful lake, cast shadows in a town below.
In many ways, it is a town of one piece and a whole. Spruce and larch and arolla pine form gentle border norht and west, while higher up are fire lilies, purple gentians, alpine columbines. In pastures near the town graze cattle for making butter, cheese and chocolate, A little textile mill produces silks, ribbons, cotton and clothes.
A snowglobe, surreal perfection of color, light and smell. Delightful sight. Botanical madness.
On this late afternoon, in these few moments while the sun is nestled in a snowy hollow of the Alps, a person could sit beside the lake and contemplate the texture of time. Hypothetically, time might be smooth or rough, prickly or silky, hard or soft. But in this world, the texture of time happens to be sticky. Portions of towns become stuck in some moment in history and do not get out. So, too, individual people become stuck in some point of their lives and do not get free.
Ice castles, snowflakes and acute angles of webbed transparencies. Stretched delicate silk. Layers and layers of thin frozen water slightly melting from thinly elegant rays of light.
The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy. The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present. Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.
Hot and cold, oil and water. Bright colors opaqued by overlapping frosted glass. Light refracted like crystals in between.
Instructors: Lisa Krohn/Rob Ball