Ian Pedigo

 
     

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.A mental construct is parallel to a physical construction. Whether architectonic or natural, each retains an aspect of conceptual and material congruency contained by its form. As matter accumulates through forces such as gravity or the attraction of opposites, similarly associations between thoughts and memories are brought together and superimposed over one another, like bits of sedimentary layers compressed and metamorphosing into something concrete or tangible.


..The significance and/or identity of an object/image finds its correlative meaning through the direct measure of its enduring preservation by an external mediary. Through the intervention with the drifting nature of materiality, the identity of an object retains an appearance of stasis only through its ongoing conservation or maintenance. As a vehicle containing such symbolic and physical values imbued within it, our memories and/or thoughts are embodied within the materiality of the physical object itself, acting as a repository of our ideas that can be reflected on later.


... The Law of Conservation of Energy states that energy is never created or destroyed, but can only be changed in terms of form. That the total quantity of matter and energy available in the universe is a fixed amount - nothing more, or less. In this sense everything is made up of the same material or energy as something else. In terms of the idea however, in the capacity of forms or spaces held mentally, does the existence of form and structure emerge from nowhere, and is the semblance of something created from nothing.