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[avad]

Stacks of books from the library....Landscapes in History, Landscape Design- A Cultural and Architectural History, different House Plan and Garden Plan books.......a psychology book:House as a Mirror of Self (I got this one before and loved it).And now I am returning to my interest in temple mandalas and labyrinths..and the Aboriginal Dreamings...everything folding over my earlier explorations...harmonizing....resonating...sometimes while reading I forget to breathe I am carried so swiftly.

from one of the interesting chapters in Landscape Design:
"Bachalard used the combined approach of Psychology and phenomenology to articulate in The Poetics of Space (1957)a concept of 'topoanalysis' in which poetic reverie encourages the individual to spiritually reinhabit the intimate spaces of memory, where he finds images "which are all light and shimmer" proving that "houses that were lost forever continue to live on in us".
um. word.;)
WHY has The Poetics of Space been on my list of must read for so long and I STILL have not read it?
Seems like it's really time.

I'm starting to get things done again finally.

Almost finished putting together a portfolio to submit to a gallery. Print outs of many pieces...resume, statement.*fingers crossed*
Just wrote the cover letter.

Finally dove in and made The Big Lumber Purchase for new pieces. I was waiting for that money to fall from the sky...but it hasn't quite yet and I need to get to work...so I bought it. On credit. *nervous exhale*.
Getting it cut to odd shapes and precise measurements- had to do scale diagram and remember forgotten math- eek. Why is America not on the metric system again? why?

Finally got to the gym. :)
Hammering my puja nails daily. Need new hammer.

Also taking some time to refresh my soul by reading from Hazrat Inayat Khan's The Heart of Sufism.....and gazing at the wonderful images in Meeting God- Elements of Hindu Devotion.
All in all, I feel more balanced...and moving forward gently. This is a good thing.

Comments

[bspark.livejournal.com]

those books all sound really interesting. I haven't done any exploration reading in a long time. I'm making some lists of things I need to get when it down to the library one of these days.

there is a book I think you would really like. its called the RSVP cycles. its out of print, but you can still find it in libraries sometimes. i am trying to find it used eventually to own it.

it was written in the 70's by members of the fluxus movement and was one of the critical texts on scoring, as in writing "scores" ahead of time for all pieces of art and happenings. this book is about how that could impact in the social sphere. for example, how writing a score that includes everything a building would be used for along with the blueprints would ultimately lead to a greater consciousness in all building... ideas like this are really important to me. why art is evocative and what it connects to personally for the artist and the viewer.

it really touched me as an artist.
i highly recommend

:)
~b

[avad.livejournal.com]

hmmmm does sound interesting-I'll check for it at my library- thanks!