End Of Residence @ Flora Ars+Natura | Grant 35-55 | 2017
Lucrecio, poeta y filósofo griego, describe el mundo según los principios de Epicuro. Su filosofía explica materialmente los objetos y los seres vivos. Según él, todo toma forma mediante combinaciones de átomos, aunque estas combinaciones de átomos son fundamentalmente fortuitas. Sugiere el libre albedrío en un universo fisicalista al postular una tendencia indeterminista de los átomos a desviarse (asociarse) aleatoriamente.
Lucretius, Greek poet and philosopher, describes the world according to the principles of Epicurus. His philosophy is inspired by matter and explains objects and living things materially. According to him, everything takes shape through combinations of atoms though these combinations of atoms are fundamentally fortuitous. He suggests free will in a physicalist universe by postulating an indeterministic tendency for atoms to deviate (associate) randomly.
PLATONIC SOLIDS in sugar
Cotton thread and sugar crystals
“The fire is made up of tetrahedrons; air, octahedra; water, icosahedra; the earth of cubes; and as a fifth form is still possible, the pentagonal dodecahedron, God used it to serve as a limit to the world ”wrote Plato. Platonic solids are perfect: the same form repeats itself on each face of the polyhedra. There are only five possible forms.
These solids supposed a world tending to perfection. I suppose that is the origin of the adjective ¨platonic¨, which precisely suggests an ideal, inapplicable to reality.
In these pieces, I create Plato´s solids in sugar. One could imagine a fiction where these solids in sugar are the basis of our contemporary world.
El fuego está formado por tetraedros; aire, octaedros; agua, icosaedros; la tierra de cubos; y como aún es posible una quinta forma, el dodecaedro pentagonal, Dios lo usó para servir de límite al mundo” escribió Platón. Los sólidos platónicos son perfectos: la misma forma se repite en cada cara de los poliedros. Sólo hay cinco formas posibles.
Estos sólidos suponían un mundo tendiente a la perfección.
Imagino los sólidos de Platón en azúcar como la base del mundo contemporáneo.
RIVER
Cotton thread and sugar crystals
Looking at the aerial views of the Valle del Cauca, where sugar plantations are located in Colombia, one can see how these straight polygonal shapes from terrains seem to adhere to the winding banks of the rivers. This is something very similar to what happens in the method that I developed where the crystals adhere to the textile threads that I use.
Al observar las vistas aéreas del Valle del Cauca, donde se ubican las plantaciones de azúcar en Colombia, se puede ver cómo formas poligonales rectas parecen adherirse a las sinuosas orillas de los ríos. Esto es algo muy similar a lo que sucede en el método que desarrollé donde los cristales se adhieren a los hilos textiles que uso.
