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From Object to Field

This section is focused on the field in which an object is present within. A field incorporates all of those objects within itself but acknowledges them as individual members. With this idea, many different individual objects could be unified as “one” (the field), although they themselves are very different from one another. The relationship between these objects however, have an effect on the energy of this field.

Walking out of Cubism

This section is talking about shifts in art and what pushed those changes. The trend of cubism of the 60’s and 70’s was followed by minimalism. The past work of sculptures which could be considered entirely transitional, “made part by part, by addition, composed” is contrasted by work from artists such as Jackson Pollock in which “the shape, image, color, and surface are single and not partial and scattered”. This concept within minimalist art created a unified piece, all present at the same time.

Thick 2D

Using my understanding of the term “field” from the past section, I understood the first sentence, “All grids are fields, not all fields are grids’ ‘ to be describing the possible freedom objects have within a field. This possible freedom draws a closer relationship between the object and the space that it is in. This is explained in the context of a city, which is the field, which is organized, but also has the freedom to produce things like skyscrapers, which are out of the norm.

Flocks, Schools, Swarms and Crowds

Different animals and objects behave differently when in a large group of one another. In the example of the study of humans in  a crowd I specifically liked the idea that a crowd can be “liberating as well as confining, angry and destructive as well as joyous”. I think this is a good example of the way people relate to space as a whole. Both “space” and everything in between are incorporated and this relationship to everything included inside that space can change the mood or feelings within an area. 

Geometric vs. Algebraic Combination

The excerpt, “Beauty is the consonance of the parts such that nothing can be added or taken away”, follows the theme of this paragraph. This idea is that small things come together to form other things which come together and so on to create unity. This is found in architecture in building a new structure or continuing to upkeep and update a structure such as The Great Mosque of Cordoba, Spain. The unity in the Mosque example is explained in the quote, “I think the fact that the Mosque continues to be itself in face of all these interventions is a tribute to its own integrity”.