anthropo

" Don't be like me.

Salvation doesn't lie within four walls.

I'm too serious to be a dilettante and too much a dabbler to be a professional. "



and so i've been thinking about space

or perhaps more precisely, the question of the physicality and/or reality of 'space'. is it real, or merely abstract? as a vacuum of nothingness: to say that space is abstract would not be entirely wrong. however that does not complete the picture.




















we relate to space by exerting our existence onto it. this exertion enables us to define an abstract idea as we apply ourselves in a 'bigger' context. SPACE may be an empty thing, but without 'us' it would not be (measurable). if i were to use a reverse logic to this, then the concept of space is one that reinforces our existence

and so i've been thinking about walls

to define = to limit. and so we place boundaries; to make sense of this infinite realm. what better way to understand the relative than to measure ourselves against it?

WALLS are interesting things. on their own, they are just scale-less objects (in space). i don't want to oversimplify, but an analogy would be (for instance) of vastness or spaciousness, which is experienced with a certain level of enclosure and a sense of scale. walls, be them physical or emotional, articulates; the boundaries that help us put things in perspectives; the boundaries that keep things away; defines an interior and exterior; and defines direction.

all walls are man made / self-inflicted.


however, what defines us can also be what traps us. on the other hand, to just let float over an infinite sea of nothingness doesn't sound like a good idea either...