detour off road into carhenge.

.....the following entries are my own investigations, findings, and thoughts that led me to a proposal for studio...

L o s t S p a c e


L o n g S p a c e


C o n s e q u e n c e S p a c e


I n d i v i d u a l S p a c e

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poem three

his father eventually died of shame,

which is still a terminal disease in some parts of this galaxy. -ra

le poème numéro deux

overwhelmed by the shattered city,

the wanderer searches for a lost sense of time + place,

the wanderer's spirit was broken

in a flash of brilliant light.

poem one

samurai


first love


shattered house

oh its a foray.

The project is a foray, hence schematic and tenuous in definition. It is an experiential exploration of emotions, history, ethics, and cultural consciousness. Because it's an exploration, it is appropriate for visitors to participate, by purchasing pieces or fixtures to ammend the site/project. It is a sculpture and an eternal work in progress, therefore bound to be schematic and in flux.


Flux: changing materiality... fragmented, dissolving... continually evolving through use.... ...also, as our consciousness/memory about the bombings changes (which it will as we become further removed), our perception of this place will also change... hence its use and appearance. Can't define the place or the experince of the tragedy. Furthermore, you cannot define individual responses to the tragedy and the site....

flexible... modulor.... rather than static.

collision.

memorial = celebration space

beauty is from old and new. subdue anger. collide ideas. actions are made to emulate hope.

yes this has happened..deal with it.

effect? growth. tumor. negative or positive. collide ideas, human interactions.

time: history is changed because of event, ability to effect others internationally. war is the oldest form of conflict, is global. ability to rid of a problem quickly. to get what one wants without fully thinking through the consequences, or if anything, not wanting to face others issues...its an opinion.

in the end, anger....has no pertinence.

the place between departure....destination.

appetite.

dark night. cars. explosions..invisible perspicacity ...
Effect!?: "CANCER".... "GROWTH"..... "TUMOR"....
the people can alter the rate of change.

the breakdown of materials.

constraints become apparent because of the concequences.

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West Wendover ghost town.
1931- 1964
8000 people at its peak
left vacant in 1967

international vs individual

financial issues, West Wendover fallen to pieces
TOTAL SITE: 18-36 mi. wide x 86 mi. long
Wendover field was used for training

air
water
space
from the shards of war...reform. regrowth.

.on the other side of the tracks

this western town.

is this a forgotton american town...ah, but we can gamble here. reborn?
the abandoned airbase becomes useful...how?
the church is now an apartment complex. air conditioners bellow out of each window..like small, regulated tu....
the history is torn and jagged. it is recreating itself into something.....
false facade. casino playground.the town was renewed ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE TRACKS.

these are my thoughts. on this town.

forgotten space..lost and found.

FAST / NON / FAST

EXPLORE: Wendover, as the site.
EXPLORE: Protect + Maintain VS Conquer + Colonization of place.
EXPLORE: Change of building use when a new purpose arises.
PERHAPS EXPLORE: A new language to mediate speed and _______
mediate dead and alive.
mediate natural and artificial.

an abandoned place.
a place of reflection..fate..concider consequences?

barren landscape.

Earth Art....according to Metamorph

Is as the stage for conflict between art and architecture.
Is an image of our post industrial age, a conceptual model.
Is still of an untested potential.

Works such as the "Spiral Jetty", "Party Buried Woodshed", and "Double Negative" are all examples of Earth Art. Is there any instance of an Earth Architecture?
Constructivism + Cubism + Minimalism = architectural projects, not earth architecture

Harold Bloom: "The Anxiety of Influence": Earth Art serves architecture as influence.
Sola-Morales' essay on "Terrain Vague":
art seeks to protect and maintain VS architecture is to conquer and colonize terrain

Can Architecture articulate the passage of time without itself dissapearing!?
Does it EVOKE an image of the terrain?
ex: Herzog + Meuron's Schaulager in Basel, where the facade appears to be a compressed version of the surroundings.

Being open to..feelings of the place.
EARTH ART stands as a mirror image of the fragile nature of architecture.

THE POWER TIME HAS ON ARCHITECTURE.

entering into night.

"I AM DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS."

• from Hindu scripture

a bump in the night.

a limit of our perception?

the prime motivation.

MATERIALITY: shows the fragile nature of everything in our world, and the power we have to control things...BUT nature will always bring everything back, the cycle of life...everything EVERYTHING returns eventually. This project shows the fragile of human life, and the physicality of ONE human being becomes apparent to the viewer, and if the viewer can reflect on this fact, and perhaps allow ones self to be open to how the materiality expresses this and other worldly ideas...................



FORAY...A SUDDEN SHORT 'ATTACK'..... FROM DEVELOPING THE NOTION OF THE TRADITIONAL....THEN DEPICTING HOPE..



5'6"..SIZE OF AVERAGE PERSON.. 5'6"...SIZE OF BLOCKS WHICH VIEWER/ EXPERIENCE-ER CAN USE TO INSERT INTO THE INTERPRETATION

W.Churchill:

"The only sure thing in life is conflict"

reflecT-ion

after entering the 140,000 i discovered that the actual number of people killed in the first bomb was 70,000 in the first few kms of the center. the numbers doubled after a few days. but the initial number stands around the 70 000 mark. when this number is transcribed into physicality, its astonishing. what does 70 000 represent? what can we compare 70 000 to? 70 000 what....
what. the printer took forever to print out the 70 000(2' x 2') and the
70 000(2' x 5'6")....
a standing vertical human.
a horizontal human.
how about humans being integrated into the earth? from standing....slowly moving down...or negative verticality....

each person is approximately 4-6 pounds of ash.
5 times 70 000 = 350 000 pounds of ash.
what does that weigh? how can we fathom that.
these figures must equate to something architectural. the complexity is apparent.

what is present?
unpleasant. doubtful.
from the bad, good must transpire.
hope.

MR. SAWACHIKA : ....I was in my office. I had just entered the room
and said "Good morning." to colleagues and I was about to
approach my desk when outside it suddenly turned bright red. I
felt very hot on my cheeks....As soon as I cried, I felt weightless as if I were an
astronaut....I went to the windows to find out where the bombing had taken
place. And I saw the mushroom cloud over the gas company. The
sound and shock somehow suggested that the bomb had been dropped
right over the gas company. I still had no idea what had
happened. And I kept looking towards the gas company....As they came to us,
they held their hands aloft. They looked like they were ghosts....It's a sad reality that the smell human beings produce when they are burned is the same as that of the dried squid when
it is grilled. The squid - we like so much to eat. It was a
strange feeling, a feeling that I had never had before. I can
still remember that smell quite clearly....

INTERVIEWER : How many patients did you treat on August 6?
ANSWER : Well, at least 2 or 3 thousands on that very day if you
include those patients whom I gave all directions to. I felt
that as if once that day started, it never ended. I had to keep
on and on treating the patients forever. It was the longest day
of my life....
I learned that the nuclearweapons which gnaw the minds and bodies of human beings shouldnever be used. Even the slightest idea using nuclear arms shouldbe completely exterminated the minds of human beings. Otherwise,we will repeat the same tragedy. And we will never stop beingashamed of ourselves.

Ode to the sun.

Ok. So its sunny and getting a tad warmer out there. finally. althougth i was getting used to the cold. not sure it really matters though, since i will be in studio for the next few weeks. and then other school work will have to get finished after that. the warmer it gets the more difficult it will be to work. so i am here on a sunday afternoon, getting ready to accomplish a few things. i will go over the idea i now have for my project as of monday, march 14th at 230pm.this time stuck with me, because i explained the ideas that are formulating to a fellow classmate as it being the idea that came about at that time and date....perhaps it was a sort of turing point. lets hope that. i have been reflecting into the direction of my ultra morbid type of project. althougth it was going the way i desired. or so i thought. i will incorporate hope. lets see where it goes. ....

• map out 140 000, 2 x 6
• map out 140 000, 2 x 2
• map out 140 000, 4-6 pounds
• print closer map of hiroshima
• print closer map of wendover

lets give it a go...

. t minus 1 month

As of today there is one month left of my studio class. I've created this blog in order to track the action that I will be experiencing in the next few weeks. There is alot of work to be done and I'm sure nobody wants to miss a moment of it!....Well, I almost wish I could!
So sit back and enjoy as I record the ups and many downs I am sure to experience.

the dakotas.. 

shoshone california. 

facts.

Wendover, Utah
pop. 1604
lat. 40.736
long. 114.021
elevation. 4885'
-location of the hanger that housed the plane that took the bomb over to Japan
-atomic bomb called "little boy" dropped onto Hiroshima, Japan by the Enola Gay at 8:15am, August 6th, 1945: the world's first atomic bomb.
-code name "Manhattan Project"
-Salton sea used for bombing practice
-President gave the project the green light August 5th
-Einstein's letter re: using uranium as a new source of energy
-Germany decided in 1942 not to build a bomb.
-Secret Place: Los Alamos, New Mexico 1943
-Kyoto was never bombed, although top on the list, but was saved because it is a cultural hub
-The bomb was thought to have:

1. saved American lives
2. shortened the war

animation.

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/flash/endofworld.html

race on...speed trap. car trip to california for masters studio 5

quote.

Quote from "The Wheat Grass Mechanism" by Don Gayton

Wendall Berry: Is randomness a varifiable condition, or is it simply a limit of our perception?

the group: team UFO at the speedway.

The beginning.

CLUI Visit.

-interactions of building and ground
-unusual land use
-Utah office center, in Wendover Utah- "project 47" 1 mile south of flightline of West Airport. Atomic bomb loading pit
-radio active sites:there are many more than people are aware of, these places will be radio active for a long time: -Nullas Range, NV (restricted)
-99 active atomic regions in the country. Direct connections to the site "Ground Truthing"
-making a direct connection and making it real
-the viewer makes the object "mean" something

January 30th, 2005. journal entry.
The road is a bit bumpy. Well, we have just passed through Reno Nevada on route to Fernley..on route to Wendover..and the Bonneville salt flats. The visit to the CLUI in Pasadena was very interesting and I have much anticipation as we head to Wendover. What will await us in this city boardering two states? As the sun plays tricks in the sky, we appreciate new happenings, but are weary and will be glad to return home.
What is it about this region that weighs heavy on the mind?