The Modern Prometheus - Please scroll across to view whole image
Our
bodily landscape is one of the most least understood. How can we ever
understand our bodies, our minds, our consciousness and our reality?
‘Tabula rasa theory of knowledge and
applied it to the way the creature attained to a ‘knowing personhood. The
creature plays out the lockean theory to perfection by gaining all of his ideas
from sensation or reflection, seeking or avoiding the causes of sensation according
to weather they produce pleasure or pain…..
‘it is with considerable difficulty
that I remember the original era of my being; all the events of that period
appear confused and indistinct. A strange multiplicity of sensations seized me
, and I saw, felt, heard and smelt at the same time; and it was indeed a long
time before I learned to distinguish between the operations of my various
senses. By degrees I remember a stronger light pressed upon my nerves, so that
I was obliged to shut my eyes’ (Shelly)
The Chronogram attempts to express the immersion into multiple spaces at multiple scales, a mentally fabricated architecture where the body becomes the drawing and the drawing is and forms the body. I have tried to show camera movment and progress as well as create a fluid image that expresses the project and its development.
