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NOTES ON ECOLOGICAL SCULPTURE

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MATERIALS: ENAMEL PAINT OF NEUTRALIZING ANTICHROMA (WHITE, GRAY, BLACK, BROWN), EARTH, ALGAE, SHIT, UNREFINED RUBBER, ORGANIC HALLUCINOGENIC PLANTS, BOOKS OF ARCANE KNOWLEDGE, CRYSTALS OF YELLOW-RED FREQUENCY, MINERALS OF MEDIUM-HARD DENSITY, IRON ORE, ARTIST'S CLOTHING AND OTHER PARAPHERNALIA

PROCESS:

I. COLLECT MATERIALS AND ORGANIZE CATEGORICALLY BY HIERARCHY OF LOGICAL DECOMPOSITION / TERRESTRIAL SPIRITUALISM =

CRYSTAL, ORE, ANIMAL, PLANT, SHIT, EARTH, NOTHING

HEAVEN, PURGATORY, AIR, LAND, SEA, CIVILIZATION, HELL

[IDEALLY THERE WOULD BE A MASSIVE ARCHIVE CONSTRUCTED ACCORDING TO THE DIMENSIONS OF EACH PIECE/MATERIAL COLLECTED, TO REMAIN AS A CHRONOLOGICAL FURNITURE OF NEGATIVE SPACE AND NEGATED ONTOLOGIES]

II. COMBINE MATERIALS IN VARIOUS CONFIGURATIONS BASED ON A PREDETERMINED SET OF FORMAL VARIABLES =

ASTRONOMICAL CHARTS / DIAGRAMS, BURIAL MOUNDS, DEATH CHAMBERS OF EGYPTIAN / MAYAN / INCAN PYRAMIDS, GEOLOGICAL TOPOGRAPHIES, STRATIFICATIONS OF BIOLOGICAL AURAS, MATERIAL EXCAVATION AND REFINING PROCEDURES, ETC.

[HEAPS WILL BE PHOTOGRAPHED OR OTHERWISE DOCUMENTED TO EXIST AS TOTEMS OF POWER AND INFLUENCE IN THEIR OWN RIGHT]

III. ATTACH MATERIALS TO ARMATURE, DEPENDING ON SPECIFIC CONFIGURATIONS AND COMBINATIONS THEREIN, TO DETERMINE WHETHER THEY SHALL BE VIEWED ON THE WALL (TO ADDRESS VISION DIRECTLY), ON THE FLOOR (TO ADDRESS THE BODY INDIRECTLY), WITHIN A VITRINE (TO ENGAGE THE MIND IN ISOLATION FROM ITS SENSES), ETC. =

LINEN - FINE QUALITY PICTURES

WOOD PANEL - SPAN DIVIDE BETWEEN PAINTING + SCULPTURE

PLEXIGLASS - INSTITUTIONAL DISPARITY

METAL + GLASS - ARCHIVAL VACUUM

PEDESTAL - ALTAR ELEVATING SCULPTURE ABOVE TERRA FIRMA

CRATE - MOBILITY, NOMADISM, STORAGE, ANTIQUITY

[ARMATURES CREATE A SERIES OF CONSIDERATIONS IN THEMSELVES AND CAN BE DISPLAYED WITHOUT OBJECT FOR DISPLAY, AN EXHIBITION OF EDIFICE]

IV. PAINT THE COALESCED MATERIALS A MONOCHROME HUE, TO BE CHOSEN IN CONSIDERATION OF THE MEAN OF THE CEREBRAL FREQUENCIES AND CONCEPTUAL DESIGNATIONS CONTAINED THEREIN =

WHITE - ERASURE THROUGH SATURATION, THE ALL, EVERYTHING, REVEALING LIGHT

GRAY - MELTING OF CONTENT THROUGH DISSOLUTION, SHIMMERING NEUTRAL, UN-NOT

BROWN - EARTH, BASE, NATURE, NULLIFIED VIA LIFE, CHAOS, TIME, SHIT, ALSO SKIN

BLACK - ERASURE THROUGH ABSENCE, THE NOT, NOTHING, ABSORBING LIGHT.