waiting

Embracing Dark Horizons

Genus

As I swallow the bulge in my throat

Alone on a dark horizon

Light I knew as comfort and knowledge

Shrinks and dims as it struggles and ceases long before it reaches the horizon before me.

My heart is stopped, its fortune squandered

Now free from voluntary shackles I see figuresNone of whom I recognize

Spiraling they fight and feast

Behind, the light is sharp and blinding

Light guarded by familiar figures whose repellant gestures snuff complacent return

One follows
This is the Vacant Vacuum of my heart

Thoughts grow heavy as squandering figures approach

Behind me my footprints leave shadows in the desert sands of the fading light

Ahead, a horizon of dark water where those familiar footprints are so easily washed.

Structure

Shepard barrel broken,
Bound shameless. -Site Operation

Guarded light grapples,
Gone leaden. -Phenomenal Intersection

Sustained stricture embarked,
End silent -Pier

Site Documentation- This is the begining of a site documentation. I appologize for the bad

photo, I didn't want to remove the drawing to scan it.

Chamber:
- A place of rumination, rejuvenation, and gathering.
Gate:
- The mechanism of threshold. The moment were crossing of chambers is afforded or denied.
Valve:
- The internal device that controls the moment of voyage, direction of motion, and speed.


I am bound in the many broken chambers with no means of advance or retreat.
I have gather all there is to gather amongst the ruins. There is nothing left.
I once was a traveler, a seeker, a student but I have been imprisoned by these broken chambers.
I have become a shell of what was the spirits of the lock.


Site: edge of ruins
Construct: gate/valve

Brevity of Extension II: Trapped Architectures

After “The Wall” by Sartre
Vocabulary:
The trap - opening/hole to sky, reminder of forbidden freedom
The cell - the trap (-ping); the psychology of expectation
The bench – the wait
The wall – literally a wall to be executed against; a trap, symbol of death ... Figuratively a wall between those with hope and those without: barrier between two worlds - living and condemned (and the figurative death inherent in condemnation)
Mute, it absorbs, swallows, awaits
Architectural Text:
The Waiting Wall….
The cell traps, the bench waits, the trap awakens, the wall awaits …and swallows
Trapped in the psychology of expectation, the sentence is passed of the cell to await the wall.
The irony of the wait is to be delivered from expectation.
Trapped in irony, Now the wait begins.

After “The Adulterous Wife” by Camus
Vocabulary:
The Parapet - the edge, stops the fall, brink of freedom, the ecstasy of stationary motion ... The sin, the act of betrayal
The Stairs- escape, the calling, climb to the edge
The Fort - temptation of freedom, youth, and virility – the questioning
The Black Tent – motion, the possibility of the other side
Architectural Text:
The Ecstasy of the Parapet …
the fort challenges, the stair calls, the edge seduces and the motion of restraint consumes…
The seduction of the edge tempts the constrained to freedom,
The real betrayal lies in the restraint…and return.

After “The Dead” by Joyce
Vocabulary:
The Corner/pantry – the trap of a self-conscious life, need for possession, progressive decay
The Corridor – mastery of illusion, path of convention, unconscious
The Bedroom – paralysis, passion, memory
The Window- evanescence, delicacy of illusion ... the opening, portal, chance to change his life, the crack
Architectural Text:
The Window's Paralysis ...
the corner affects, the corridor heals, the bedroom deserts, the window humbles … and cracks.
Paralyzed by living, freed in a re-framing. epiphany in the tear...


To Follow:
three visual sentences; in 'the waiting wall', 'the ecstasy of the parapet', and 'the window's paralysis'

Brevity of Extension

Odyssey into Fiction

This proposal will attempt to translate three short stories into an architectural idea through an examination of the ’literary epiphany’ in all its spatial and metaphorical ramifications.

Epiphany comes from the Greek “epiphaneia” meaning “manifestation”. It is the sudden intuitive perception of or into the truth of something inspired by a seemingly trivial incident.
The Authors: Joyce, Camus, Poe

Dark Horizons

Site- Machine of Man

Volume of Shadow

Fading Light

Volume of Light

As I swallow the bulge in my throat
Alone on a dark horizon
Light I knew as comfort and knowledge
Shrinks and dims as it struggles and ceases long before it reaches the horizon before me.
My heart is stopped, its fortune squandered
Now free from voluntary shackles I see figures
None of whom I recognize
Spiraling they fight and feast
Behind, the light is sharp and blinding
Light guarded by familiar figures whose repellant gestures snuff complacent return
One follows as a ghost I cannot touch
This is the Vacant Vacuum of my heart
Thoughts grow heavy as squandering figures approach
Behind me my footprints leave shadows in the desert sands of the fading light
Ahead, a horizon of dark water where those familiar footprints are so easily washed.

Project: Embracing Dark Horizons

Site: Machine of Man (Ruger Mark II)

Dialogue: An examination of Light, Text, and Site in attempt to construct a stepping stone towards new/ dark horizons.