Conjunction
This door symbolises much more than its simple appearance, which is blue, chipped rusty warn weathered and heavy. I think when I saw the door it symbolised a passage way or cellar entrance the size and shape reminded me of stables. What happened to the other half? Ultimately a door is an entranceway to something…
By doing absurd (Absurdist) things, it is often classes as illogical but in fact it may be logical in the terms of enlightenment and moving forward and development.
“above all, it should not waste time trying to effect some sort of synthesis or reconciliation between the manifest and scientific images […] Enlightenment consists in expediting science’s demolition of the manifest image by kicking away whatever pseudo-transcendental props are being used to shore it up or otherwise inhibit corrosive potency of science’s metaphysical subtractions.” (Brassier, 2007)
Rock, Paper, Scissors
I give the bottle and umbrella, there is always the potential of the ‘Scissors’ been open and closed.
I looked at the potential that the abnormal or absurd, by posing the questions and enabling the audience to partake, I can also encourage that whim upon them, by demonstrating an absurd act or acts it allows the audience to feel secure in their response to the work.
‘of course, having conceded that the notion of a non-manifest apperance is not entierly oxymoronic.’ (Brassier, 2007)
