THERE ARE RULES BEHIND COMPLEX AND ORGANIC CIRCUMSTANCES
This is the opening sentence of “Rules” written by Ayumi Higuchi. An essay in which she investigates the impact rules have or can have on the process of cause and effect in the creative process. An story that drags you into the exiting process of research where every question or statement leads to two others.
Using interviews as a platform to ask questions and create interaction, she involves Jan Groenewold (physician-chef), Luna Maurer and Jonathan Puckey (graphic designers), Snejanka Mihaylova (philosopher-writer-artist) and Peter van Bergen (musician-composer) to over the subject from the perspective of their specific dicipline.
Look for yourself how she illustrates this story with many images and quotes dragging you deeper into the matter every page, creating indepth understanding. Munari, Wittgenstein, 9/11, John Cage, mixing politics with art and science with nature to get her point across.
Last week Ayumi visited us to present a workshop in which she planted the seed of understanding using Bruno Munari’s observations; [...] We can establish a rule of growth: the branch that follows is always slenderer than the one before it (Drawing a Tree).
Providing us with a trunk and applying two simple rules to it: The branch that follows must be slimmer than the one before -and- the tree must be symetric, it quicly became clear that there are many rules behind complex and organic circumstances.
“Rules”: essay by Ayumi Higuchi
April 30th, 2010 at 9:23 pm
The essay is great, I highly recommend reading it.