One of ten cardboard contraptions. These are the glasses of truth. Put them on, and everything you've wondered about becomes perfectly understood.
A long tunnel made of hundreds of yards of different shades of lavender. Sitting inside brought a strange sense of peace.
The Life Editing Machine--just slip in a piece of blank paper, and rewrite anything that's happened to you as you wish it had occurred.
The Dream Recording Device--Slip in the vhs tape, place the monitors on each temple, and fall asleep. When you awake, rewind and watch all of your dreams from the previous night.
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Typewriter:
The detail and tactile expressiveness of this piece is most remarkable. The corrugated cardboard is worked so articulately, and through the eyes it speaks to other sensitivities and capacities of the body. The fingers want to play the keys of this device designed to be worked by the human hand, and the hand wants to touch the papery skin of the cardboard and squeeze air from corrugated pockets beneath. This work, by stirring me to move, reminds me that movement too may be a mode of perception. This work also reinforces the inter-sensory quality of both experience and art. As the French phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty writes:
“Cézanne declared that a picture contains within itself even the smell of a landscape. He meant that the arrangement of colour on the thing (and in the work of art, if it catches the thing in its entirety) signifies by itself all the responses which would be elicited through an examination by the remaining senses; that a thing would not have this colour had it not also this shape, these tactile properties, this resonance, this odour, and that the thing is the absolute fullness which my undivided existence projects before itself” (1945, p. 318-319)
one starving musician came by to exclaim: Oooh! Oooh! I really really need a Life Editing Machine! Oh the trouble it would have saved me...
j.e.
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