indivisibility
Identity : A micro-macro optical (lens) garden in Manhattan’s Flower District will illuminate our interconnectedness with plant species from diverse geographies. This installation, synchronized with blooming cycles, ecological timekeeping, and interactions with insects and pollinators, will provide a multiscalar and multispecies perspective on urban ecologies and their temporal rhythms.This garden will serve as a public installation for experiencing co-becoming with ecological systems, emphasizing the interdependence between human and non-human lives. The intended outcome is to design and fabricate this multi-species visibility installation for public engagement / co-becomings. Worlding intertwining cultural narratives and ecological frameworks, both projects envision representational thresholds that hold us together, so we allow ourselves to tremble, transform and be transformed with these interconnected forms of ecological and biological intelligent systems. Intelligent sensing embodies the capacity for open-ended inquiry embracing relational pluralism and sustainable, circular interventions. In this era of ecological urgency, commoning intelligence amplifies radical forms of care for human and interspecies cohabitation. It also offers a framework for engaging with historical objects to open portals into sensing the cosmos and understanding planetary organizational principles, fostering deeper ecological and cultural awareness essential for shaping regenerative futures. This project envisions creating common natures for co-evolving societies and fostering engagement with artists, designers, architects, and communities sensitive to cultural and ecological frameworks. By designing Monumental thresholds of time and space in the indivisible frameworks.
Precarious fragile spectrometer of presence and absence. Of a certain present day history traced through field recordings that stand at the edge of visibility and indivisibility. Within the framework of various rasas. Emotional states of refraction. The act of playing them to process their entanglements through different states of being - The archival of different spectral states of spatial formulations of space and time, their state of presence and make way for contemplating absence/specter bias, grief, care, love, humor and presence within them to extrapolate new contemporary narratives.
Social Justice strategies to inculcate abundance. To think in spectral terms (than in singular forms of monotonous conceptual frameworks) for a humane rhythmic life of variation in physiological states and experience of a “gharana” to pass into new hybridized liminal states of creating a whole.
Gaia must make room for the sundry different ways of living (in) the Anthropocene, since the Earth’s space-time-energy overall configuration thus named is refracted and diffracted in many directions.
Arènes, Latour, and Gaillardet (2018) observe in their recent paper on “Gaia-graphy”—an anamorphic refiguration of the planet as seen “from the inside” rather than from the usual view from outer space—the Earth itself “is much more concrete, dynamic, complex, heterogeneous and reactive than what can be captured through the cartographic imaginary of points defined on a map by longitude and latitude.” To which we might add the macrotemporal heterogeneity of the Earth, its geologically unceasing becoming-other.
Anthropocene-thinking requires the practice of a radical form of ontological pluralism, both on the side of anthropology—the attention to the many ways of living and thinking the Anthropocene by different peoples in different places, differently affected by capitalism’s processes of material extraction and spiritual sorcery—and on the side of the ecological, biological, and geophysical sciences—unearthing the “different Earths”; mapping out of different zones of ecological simplification; re- cording the sometimes surprising unintentional effects of bio-, socio-, and geo-engineering actions on the part of states and corporations; developing the new insights about the multifarious symbiotic interdependence of all life-forms.
Perception : What forces of presence derive absence?
Everything is alive
When matter grows on it
It becomes visible
It becomes tangible.
Perception is itself a collection of acts of measurement that can only make sense from an interiority, from a standing location. The exterior, the outer, the Outdoors are effectively components of an interiority, which is a unit of transcendence assembled by deictic operations.
Spectral Architecture
This image that comes from a scent a place to the image that becomes a place to the image that becomes an act, a ritual, a habit, a practice, a being, to bring more and more flesh to it, to bring more and more life to it, to bring more and more place to it, to bring more and more language to it in liminal forms.
- Liminal Myth-o-spheres
- Multisensory Spaces, Sentscapes etc.
- Rhizospheres - bliss, happy, grief, knowledge, curiosity, formulations, delight, wonder
- Spectre Spaces (of absence)
- Archival frameworks of programmatic biases
Architecture of a spectral threshold of indivisibility between visible and invisible states, that allows for exploration of spectral states of being. Spectral architecture crafts liminal myth-o-spheres while exploring multisensory design strategies, including scentscapes. Function : These spectre spaces enable archiving decolonial experiences to embody ecological and cultural landscapes of healing, care, and belonging.