DWELLING WHERE THE MUSES ARE SERVED/SPARED EMPTINESS

“IN THE SHADOWS OF FOLDED SPACE” 

Imagine a sheet of paper… Holding it between your hands, knowing that it has two sides; but thought to have zero thickness. A three-dimensional form, mitigated to the dishonor of a mere two-dimensional comprehension. What if it actually did have no thickness? What if the sheet of paper became so thin that it was only one-sided; shedding its ineffectual thickness? We propose that a planar element could not only achieve such a negligible breadth, but that we could make use of its new lack of dimensionality. At the very moment prior to its second side’s ghostly dissolution into nothingness, by slicing between the space-time continuum; we can pull the two sides of the sheet apart… As the two one-sided planes expand across known space, the void contained within unfolds into consciousness. An exterior skin that has recognizable dimension, a method to which we have become prescribed and normalized; yet an interiority which defies the current realms of spatial occupation and quantification… May this space be ascertained? It is a realm without edge or boundary. May its volume be occupied by the terrestrial, or only the ethereal spirit of the muse? It is this zero-space, the space within, the space of shadows, the space of negation within which the muses currently rest and await our discovery, within which they may both be served / spared the emptiness of our un/consciousness. The new frontier, that which we shall come to explore in the third and fourth millennium; is not that which is without, but is that which is already within.

PROJECT: shinkenchiku.design.competition, 2002
LOCATION: tokyo, japan