Home quarantine this week as I had covid last week. I’m doing some online and at home study when I’m feeling better.
Weekly record highlights :
- Site of research: Pataphysics
- AOI review
- Documentary: Liang and Lin
- Dead Poets Society
Pataphysics
A Chronological
PANTHEON
of
PATAPHYSICS
This publication is intended primarily as a commentary on the drawing by Adam Dant which it accompanies.
The drawing seeks to portray some of the cast of persons who have contributed to the Science. It is laid out chronologically because it had to be organized somehow, and a chronology is no more arbitrary than any other taxonomy…it is concerned with individuals, while events tend to be represented only when they introduce a new character into the narrative.
This has provided great inspiration for my CPP, which focuses on propositions per se rather than events. Propositions are in a broader spatio-temporal order and exist independently.
AOI review
This week I reviewed the AOI Illustration Masterclass and wrote down key notes.
The forms and contract points they provided are being used in my dealings with clients and it has made me feel more professional.
It also reminded me of some areas that I need to perfect as an illustrator and start improving.
Documentary: Liang and Lin
Lin Huiyin
Her Husband: Liang Sicheng
Lin Huiyin is a modern Chinese literary writer and the first female architect in Chinese history. I have loved her prose and poetry since I was in primary school, and I can say that she was one of my main literary initiation writers.
This documentary follows her and her husband’s upbringing and research in the context of the last century. In that difficult environment, they still defended the pure aesthetics of art, literature and architecture, leaving me in greater awe as I learned more.
I found that literature and environment are closely related to personal experience. Perhaps the reason why I love Huiyin’s literature is that she and I share similar emotions and upbringing, which deepens the resonance of literary expression.
Dead Poets Society
I went to see Dead Poets Society when I saw the black and white photos in the documentary. Those once young men are now dust, and the light of those fine characters and literature remains in the hearts of future generations.
“You see, gentlemen, these boys are now fertilizing daffodils.”
“Carpe diem.”