Tubular

I am currently contemplating textile tubes between two and three feet across and 20 feet in length. I will be visiting the fashion district in Los Angeles on Friday morning seeking textile treasures and possibilities for this work.

Paul Wilkins and I are doing a collaborative show on the 7th of July at the Market Gallery. Black lighting, smoke, lasers, and textiles along with performance art/sound. Phenomenological journey exploring string theory with visual and sound sculpture.

The Shape of Space?

Our modern understanding of the universe is that it is infinite and expanding (from a point in space where the big bang originated in a sudden and violent expansion of quark gluon plasma).  Recent observations by astronomer and cosmologist, Alexander (Sasha) Kashlinsky may show that the universe has an edge and there may be many other universes.  He observed that a cluster of galaxies are clustering together as if being pulled by another force - what he calls Dark Flow. This Dark Flow appears as a cold spot on the 'soup' of sound of our universe.

If the universe is not infinite, but has a shape then what is it?  Kashlinsky along with an astrophysicist, Jean-Pierre Luminet, theorize that the universe is a dodecahedron.

Human Geography

I just read a fantastic passage by Foucault:

The space in which we live, which draws us out of ourselves, in which the erosion of our lives, our time and our history occurs, the space that claws and gnaws at us, is also, in itself, a heterogeneous space.  In other words, we do not live in a kind of void, inside of which we could place individuals and things.  We do not live inside a void that could be colored with diverse shades of light, we live inside a set of relations that delineates sites which are irreducible to one another and absolutely not superimposable on one another.
    
- "Of Other Spaces", 1986