The Knife & The Chair:
In both of these videos, Jack Goldstein uses ordinary objects and shines a new light on them, changing the viewer's perspective of that object, making it appear more beautiful and artful.
The Knife to me at first was a monotonous video, however when it got more towards the end that is when I actually started enjoying it after the knife had reflected multiple colors already. I was waiting for something to pop out, the knife to disappear, or something shocking to happen but it never happened so the video made me anxious to see what would happen to this knife. However, towards the end I realized nothing was going to happen. The knife was a piece of art, it was something that had been turned beautiful. It got me thinking there was more beauty to a knife than I would've thought thanks to the its' reflectiveness and the colors that were shone on it. The colors got me to think about the different uses of knives and how when they are being used to cut, eat, or just sitting on a table that wide variety of colors also reflect back and forth across it in our everyday life yet we never really stop and look at it since we see it all the time. I also feel like the red, blue, and yellow color could represent the different uses or views on knife. Like the red would represent it as a weapon, the blue would represent it being calm and cool being used in cutting and eating meals, and the yellow would represent it being as something valuable or important. No longer is the knife viewed as dangerous or a weapon, but rather as art that has beautiful reflective and colorful qualities.
The Chair also was similar to The Knife in that an ordinary object was centered without moving in the video. Instead of a knife, there was a chair placed in the middle of the screen. At first I had no idea what it was because of the lighting on it but slowly over a period of about 7 minutes feathers begin to drop onto and around the chair. The feathers are bright colors that stand out against the background and the chair making the video a lot more fascinating and brings the video to life. Throughout the video the feathers end up sticking to the chair along with around it. I was also waiting to see if anything happened like maybe the chair would fall down or a huge mass of feathers would cover it but instead the feathers just slowly floated down and around the chair. I enjoyed that though because it had a certain serene quality to it making it very relaxed and calming to watch in a way. I feel like he is trying to say something about passing of time and how it passes on slowly even when nobody is there or watching. He could also be trying to say how nature affects us and brings color into our life or perhaps how nature is comforting and relaxing.
Gary Hill's Videos:
I like the composition of the "Mediations" video and the way he explores and connects sounds and language. I really like what the vibrations of the speaker did to the sand and animated it while the voice was speaking. I felt like he really personified the speaker and succeeded in connecting voice and speaker as one. It seemed like he was trying to bury the voice, maybe like it was his conscious thoughts and didn't want to hear it anymore. His "Why Do Things Get in a Muddle?" video looks like it was made at his house with a normal video camera but what makes them different is the way he uses sound and language I feel like when Alice is playing that mini piano, she makes the atmosphere really eerie and odd, especially combined with the voices when they start talking. They also sounded sort of robotic to me but later on it made sense to me as he was gradually changing the voices, slowing them down, and also reversing them making them incomprehensible. He seems to move the camera around a lot too and I felt like it was very dreamlike but in a very creepy odd way. I felt very uneasy watching it as I began to not be able to understand them. I feel like he has a fascination with exploring language and sound and that's exactly what he did in that video. In his "Incidence of Catastrophe", yet again he explored sounds and language but this time using text as well. The flashes of text and words are kind of like a guide or narration to what's going in and sort of becomes his wall and shapes who he is. A lot of emotion can be seen in this particular video compared to other ones since he's the subject and he cares so much about language . At the end he shows how vital language is in our lives and how without it, we are nothing.
Monday, November 29, 2010
The Knife, The Chair, and the Hill
The Knife
I felt that The Knife was quite an extraordinarily boring piece to watch. It is nothing more than a knife lying on a flat surface of some kind, with lights of varying colours altering the way we perceive the knife. The colours being shone on the knife alternate between a hot red and a cold blue colour, before one final transference into yellow. As is, the knife is used as nothing more than a reflective element. The functionality of the knife as a tool used to slice has been removed, leaving it only as an object to look at. Presenting the knife as Goldstein did alters the viewer's perception of the knife from being a potentially dangerous tool into a benign piece of art.
The Chair
Similarly to The Knife, Goldstein chooses yet another mundane, everyday object as the subject as this piece. The chair is completely isolated in the piece. Throughout the passage of the piece, brightly coloured leaves fall onto and around the chair. This gives the viewer the impression that the chair goes unused for an extended period of time. The chair takes on the role of this forsaken and forgotten object. The use of the object as a place to sit and relax was forgotten.
Gary Hill
-Mediations
The connection of the audio with the actions occurring in the piece was quite interesting to watch. I felt as if Hill was trying to make the point of how an individual's voice could be lost among many and how an idea could do the same.
- Why Do Things Get in a Muddle?
This work demonstrates how the arrangement of language can can have an effect on the meaning of it, such as how "Come on petunia" can become "once upon a time."
- Incidence of Catastrophe
I feel as if the work comments on how even language can limit the expressions of a person, yet without a language, communication between two persons would be severely limited.
I felt that The Knife was quite an extraordinarily boring piece to watch. It is nothing more than a knife lying on a flat surface of some kind, with lights of varying colours altering the way we perceive the knife. The colours being shone on the knife alternate between a hot red and a cold blue colour, before one final transference into yellow. As is, the knife is used as nothing more than a reflective element. The functionality of the knife as a tool used to slice has been removed, leaving it only as an object to look at. Presenting the knife as Goldstein did alters the viewer's perception of the knife from being a potentially dangerous tool into a benign piece of art.
The Chair
Similarly to The Knife, Goldstein chooses yet another mundane, everyday object as the subject as this piece. The chair is completely isolated in the piece. Throughout the passage of the piece, brightly coloured leaves fall onto and around the chair. This gives the viewer the impression that the chair goes unused for an extended period of time. The chair takes on the role of this forsaken and forgotten object. The use of the object as a place to sit and relax was forgotten.
Gary Hill
-Mediations
The connection of the audio with the actions occurring in the piece was quite interesting to watch. I felt as if Hill was trying to make the point of how an individual's voice could be lost among many and how an idea could do the same.
- Why Do Things Get in a Muddle?
This work demonstrates how the arrangement of language can can have an effect on the meaning of it, such as how "Come on petunia" can become "once upon a time."
- Incidence of Catastrophe
I feel as if the work comments on how even language can limit the expressions of a person, yet without a language, communication between two persons would be severely limited.
Knife/Chair/Hill
In both "The Knife" and "The Chair," Goldstein keeps out the sound which lets us focus in on the visual and the atmosphere of the video. Making these videos silent, makes them seem more meditative on the colors of the light in "The Knife" and of the leaves in "The Chair."
The Knife
The way the knife is laid out is rather unusual because one usually doesn't lay out a knife in a horizontal manner. Because it is horizontal, it looks less menacing, taking away its function of cutting. The colors lighting it up turn this normal item into something more important. To me, the placement reminded me of the replacement of a relic. Goldstein transforms the function of this object into something like a treasure.
The colors tend to change the atmosphere too. I feel more serene when it turns blue and pretty endangered when it turns red. The slow lighting up creates anxiety. Once full, you kind of feel relieved but at the same time you're anticipating a new function for the knife. For example, once the knife turns gold, its function suddenly becomes like money, or a jewel. Then the color goes out and you instantly remember it's just a regular knife.
The Chair
Goldstein chooses another mundane subject in this video. We all use chairs all the time from since we were a baby in baby seat to the rocking chair. This chair actually does remind me of a rocking chair because of how it just sits there. Like a rocking chair on the porch, it just sits there forever letting the leaves pile on it. Rather than falling around the chair, the leaves fall on it too, making it look used and not important like the knife.
The falling leaves seem to symbolize a passage of time. They just keep on falling forever so it feels like time goes on forever. By the end of the video, I lost sense of time because of the falling leaves sequence doesn't end. Though their movement reminds me of autumn, their odd colors (especially the blue) remind me more of confetti. The atmosphere doesn't seem very party-like though.
Gary Hill
From these three works, I could tell he really liked to experiment with the sounds and meaning from language.
In "Meditations," he experimented with language's function: connecting an image and meaning with a sound (i.e. speaker and the word "speaker.") But once he started adding the sand, the meaning becomes lost. The sand buries it. The language becomes less full of meaning and gets reduced to just the sound of a gurgling voice and bouncing sand. I think Gary Hill aimed to show how fragile language can be. If we can't hear something familiar, then the meaning is lost and language becomes useless.
In "Why do Things Get in a Muddle," Hill is still focused on the basic function of language. While language is supposed to clarify ideas, it can also complicate them because of the puns and metaphors we've developed with language. And like how "Come on Petunia" can be regrouped to be "once upon a time," changing the letters around can easily change something's meaning.
In "Incidence of Catostrophe," Hill shows how we've made language physical with books and text. Text becomes our walls, as he shows us in the end. Using himself as a subject this time, he shares how although we make language, language can shape our identity too. In the end, he babbles on as a broken human in his feces. We are useless without language.
The Knife
The way the knife is laid out is rather unusual because one usually doesn't lay out a knife in a horizontal manner. Because it is horizontal, it looks less menacing, taking away its function of cutting. The colors lighting it up turn this normal item into something more important. To me, the placement reminded me of the replacement of a relic. Goldstein transforms the function of this object into something like a treasure.
The colors tend to change the atmosphere too. I feel more serene when it turns blue and pretty endangered when it turns red. The slow lighting up creates anxiety. Once full, you kind of feel relieved but at the same time you're anticipating a new function for the knife. For example, once the knife turns gold, its function suddenly becomes like money, or a jewel. Then the color goes out and you instantly remember it's just a regular knife.
The Chair
Goldstein chooses another mundane subject in this video. We all use chairs all the time from since we were a baby in baby seat to the rocking chair. This chair actually does remind me of a rocking chair because of how it just sits there. Like a rocking chair on the porch, it just sits there forever letting the leaves pile on it. Rather than falling around the chair, the leaves fall on it too, making it look used and not important like the knife.
The falling leaves seem to symbolize a passage of time. They just keep on falling forever so it feels like time goes on forever. By the end of the video, I lost sense of time because of the falling leaves sequence doesn't end. Though their movement reminds me of autumn, their odd colors (especially the blue) remind me more of confetti. The atmosphere doesn't seem very party-like though.
Gary Hill
From these three works, I could tell he really liked to experiment with the sounds and meaning from language.
In "Meditations," he experimented with language's function: connecting an image and meaning with a sound (i.e. speaker and the word "speaker.") But once he started adding the sand, the meaning becomes lost. The sand buries it. The language becomes less full of meaning and gets reduced to just the sound of a gurgling voice and bouncing sand. I think Gary Hill aimed to show how fragile language can be. If we can't hear something familiar, then the meaning is lost and language becomes useless.
In "Why do Things Get in a Muddle," Hill is still focused on the basic function of language. While language is supposed to clarify ideas, it can also complicate them because of the puns and metaphors we've developed with language. And like how "Come on Petunia" can be regrouped to be "once upon a time," changing the letters around can easily change something's meaning.
In "Incidence of Catostrophe," Hill shows how we've made language physical with books and text. Text becomes our walls, as he shows us in the end. Using himself as a subject this time, he shares how although we make language, language can shape our identity too. In the end, he babbles on as a broken human in his feces. We are useless without language.
Gary Hill
His work clearly has an emphasis on speech, enunciation, and words in general. "Meditations" was very interesting.. the way the words were gradually muffled, and then reduced to a whisper as more sand was sprinkled on top of the speaker was a curious thing to watch. I predicted that the speech would become more rumbly and distorted as more sand was added, but instead the speech overcame the rumbly sounds and instead became clearer, but quieter. The voice gradually became buried in sand, in what seemed to be an attempt to drown it out. It made me think about trying to cover up an idea, or a thought. The voice coming from the speaker could represent one's mind or conscience, repeatedly trying to convey a concept, but unsuccessfully due to the ceaseless gradual burial in sand - or one trying to put the thought in the back of one's mind. "Incidence of Catastrophe" contained an interesting juxtaposition at the beginning of watery waves and text, showing parallels between them in their shape and form. Then the clips seem to get a little random, alternating between scenes of trees, humans, and text. I got lost and no longer saw too many clear connections. In "Why Do Things Get in a Muddle?", the voice at the beginning sounded creepy and Voldemort-like, which went perfectly with the creepy music. After showing an Alice-in-Wonderland type-scene of a room, a dialogue begins between a father and daughter as the viewer sees the top of a desk. They discuss other people "muddling" things up, in a very scripted fashion, sounding very unnatural. They discuss the meaning of the word in both denotation and connotation. Later in the video as their conversation moves on, the voices get distorted and creepy and I can't quite understand what they are saying anymore.
Sunday, November 28, 2010
The Knife & Chair
The Knife
The video is so simple and still, but so beautiful at the same time. A singular knife is set in the center of the screen - positioned horizontally on a flat, blue-violet surface. Other than a few glints of white light refracting off its edges, the knife is devoid of any reflection. Everything is still. Then a red light suddenly appears - first reflected just off the edge of the knife, it then slides gradually over the entire utensil. Once the red light entirely covers the knife, it remains for a few seconds, and then disappears quickly as if it were wiped off. This process repeats again, but with a light green light, and then again with red, then blue, then yellow lights. The slow, delicate process of the light crawling up the side of the knife reminds me of the mercury of an old thermometer rising. The very slow build-up and quick release of light can be representative of so many things. Because the lights were different colors, I attributed them to different emotions. Emotions can gradually build up, very slowly, and they can dissipate very quickly - just like the lights. Specifically, I thought about anger. Many different little annoyances in life can snowball together and create a bubbling rage of anger that grows and grows until it is all-encompassing - like when the knife is entirely bathed in light - and there is nowhere else for it to go but be released; this may happen by lashing out or just letting go. In the case of the knife, I feel like the act of just "letting go" is expressed. The knife never moves, never flinches. It remains the same the entire time and is passive to the whole experience of the light build-up. But why was a knife chosen as the object to represent a human? The knife is an essential tool to human life; we use it to cut and eat. We can also use it as a weapon of defense, or a weapon of murder. The knife always has a connotation of violence and aggression to it. Even in its static state resting on the purple surface, it still has the potential to be used as an object of violence. As the light creeps up closer and closer to the top of the knife, the closer and closer the emotion gets to peaking and inspiring a reaction - one that could end in violence, or merely letting go and moving on.
The Chair
Like The Knife, The Chair sits in an area devoid of movement. The black chair blends in with its black backdrop, only distinguishable by its white highlights reflecting back at the viewer. After taking in the static scene for a little while, a yellow feather floats down from above, gracefully landing behind the chair. Soon after, a white feather drops, floating down and landing in the same delicate manner. Gradually, more feathers of different colors fall in the same fashion, landing on the seat, arms, and back of the chair as well as the floor. The feathers pile up randomly, more dense in some areas than others. This continues for the entirety of the video. Contrasting with the dark chair and backdrop, the brightly colored feathers lighten up the scene a lot. To me, they seem to represent little bits of happiness raining down on an otherwise sad situation. Individually, each feather brings just a tiny bit of color into the scene. But altogether, they really make a difference to the overall appearance. The video could be referencing a kind of "appreciate the little things" mantra. But there is definitely a sense of compilation and building up - but in a different way than in The Knife. I'm not sure why a chair was chosen to be the main subject of the video. Chairs are used for rest and usually cause a feeling of contentment when one can finally sit down. However, the chair used in this video is not cushioned or comfortable looking - it's rather basic and would not be the chair of choice when one yearns for a long, comfortable rest. The simplicity of the chair may be used to contribute to the bleak subject and backdrop in the scene - to contrast more with the "happy" feathers. Another thought is that feathers compiled together are used for comfort - such as to fill pillows and cushions, which greatly contrasts with the chair in the scene, which is stiff and uninviting.
The video is so simple and still, but so beautiful at the same time. A singular knife is set in the center of the screen - positioned horizontally on a flat, blue-violet surface. Other than a few glints of white light refracting off its edges, the knife is devoid of any reflection. Everything is still. Then a red light suddenly appears - first reflected just off the edge of the knife, it then slides gradually over the entire utensil. Once the red light entirely covers the knife, it remains for a few seconds, and then disappears quickly as if it were wiped off. This process repeats again, but with a light green light, and then again with red, then blue, then yellow lights. The slow, delicate process of the light crawling up the side of the knife reminds me of the mercury of an old thermometer rising. The very slow build-up and quick release of light can be representative of so many things. Because the lights were different colors, I attributed them to different emotions. Emotions can gradually build up, very slowly, and they can dissipate very quickly - just like the lights. Specifically, I thought about anger. Many different little annoyances in life can snowball together and create a bubbling rage of anger that grows and grows until it is all-encompassing - like when the knife is entirely bathed in light - and there is nowhere else for it to go but be released; this may happen by lashing out or just letting go. In the case of the knife, I feel like the act of just "letting go" is expressed. The knife never moves, never flinches. It remains the same the entire time and is passive to the whole experience of the light build-up. But why was a knife chosen as the object to represent a human? The knife is an essential tool to human life; we use it to cut and eat. We can also use it as a weapon of defense, or a weapon of murder. The knife always has a connotation of violence and aggression to it. Even in its static state resting on the purple surface, it still has the potential to be used as an object of violence. As the light creeps up closer and closer to the top of the knife, the closer and closer the emotion gets to peaking and inspiring a reaction - one that could end in violence, or merely letting go and moving on.
The Chair
Like The Knife, The Chair sits in an area devoid of movement. The black chair blends in with its black backdrop, only distinguishable by its white highlights reflecting back at the viewer. After taking in the static scene for a little while, a yellow feather floats down from above, gracefully landing behind the chair. Soon after, a white feather drops, floating down and landing in the same delicate manner. Gradually, more feathers of different colors fall in the same fashion, landing on the seat, arms, and back of the chair as well as the floor. The feathers pile up randomly, more dense in some areas than others. This continues for the entirety of the video. Contrasting with the dark chair and backdrop, the brightly colored feathers lighten up the scene a lot. To me, they seem to represent little bits of happiness raining down on an otherwise sad situation. Individually, each feather brings just a tiny bit of color into the scene. But altogether, they really make a difference to the overall appearance. The video could be referencing a kind of "appreciate the little things" mantra. But there is definitely a sense of compilation and building up - but in a different way than in The Knife. I'm not sure why a chair was chosen to be the main subject of the video. Chairs are used for rest and usually cause a feeling of contentment when one can finally sit down. However, the chair used in this video is not cushioned or comfortable looking - it's rather basic and would not be the chair of choice when one yearns for a long, comfortable rest. The simplicity of the chair may be used to contribute to the bleak subject and backdrop in the scene - to contrast more with the "happy" feathers. Another thought is that feathers compiled together are used for comfort - such as to fill pillows and cushions, which greatly contrasts with the chair in the scene, which is stiff and uninviting.
Knife and Chair
Knife and Chair
Goldstein showcases everyday object in his videos that bring a sense of beauty and life to them. The length of his videos adds to how plain and uninteresting these objects are in everyday context and the monotony we put them through even though the have extreme importance in our life (imagine life without out chairs). These objects are victims of form over function and lack ornamentation and excitement. They are mass produced and easily replaceable so they hold almost no value. So shining the limelight on these objects and treating them as art instead of utensils pays some sort of homage to all of the other unappreciated inanimate objects in this world. But seriously though, the colorful lights in Knife create something really beautiful out of something so ordinary. The pattern of the lights also reflects this how they slowly cover the knife from one end to the other and once it is completely submerged the color quickly disappears, reflected the appreciation for the utensil I guess, or just appreciation in general, or any realization for that matter, how it takes such a long time to realize its importance, but that moment is fleeting and disappears almost instantly.
The same idea of a steady rhythm is illustrated in chair how slowly each feather is added to the frame and they slowly start to come together or define something. Again these, harsh colors against the ordinary chair creates this synergistic effect almost where some sort of transference happens and the piece become more about the chair and the space around the chair and not the falling feathers. I liked what Laura said about the feathers defining space; creating a visual and allowing us so map out the depth and form of the negative space. The feathers also help establish a sense of time because feathers fall a slow wistful rate so the audience can establish that the video is in real time as if it were actually happening in font of them adding to the simplicity of the whole project, which further emphasizes the focus on the chair.
Gary Hill
Oh Gary Hill, he does some crazy things. His Wall Piece is kind of interesting where he forms sentences from the words he says while running and jumping onto a wall. It creates an unnatural rhythm to the sentence that creates this painful awkwardness and the viewer can hear his voice changes when he actually hits the wall further emphasizing that he is running into a wall and that he will have large bruises all over his body. But the choppyness of his speech gives the impression of photographs especially with the light flashing while he’s jumping. This relates to one of the first things he says which is I live time through a succession of pictures, the rest of his speech isn’t as related because he goes on this strange rant but I like the idea that he is living his live through these brief moments like pictures and the time in between pictures or the darkness doesn’t matter, just whats captured on film. I also live the way he plays with language in Mediations where he distorts sound coming out of a speaking with sand, but in the end doesn’t eliminate it just change it into something else. Lastly I really like his piece where he straps the cameras to all of his limbs and the different perspectives take his body out of contet almost and he appears to be still while the rest of the world is moving around him.
Saturday, November 27, 2010
The Knife / The Chair / Gary Hill
The Knife
I really enjoyed how Goldstein was able to physically transform the knife without touching it. First Goldstein changes the knife from a solid object into an empty container being filled. The knife takes on the stance of a horizontal thermometer. The red of mercury rising with the temperture change displayed by the background. When the knife is overwhelmed with red light Goldstein gives a few moments for meditation. At this point i sort of disassociate the knife from temperature and just appreciate the reflections of light. I'm not really sure about the blue knife but i think about the juxtapostion of the connotation of blue which is calm and cool, or possibly frozen versus a knife which is used to cut, possibly cause harm but i think it sort of looks like a butter knife (not so harmful). The green seems radioactive. My favorite part of this piece is when the knife takes on the yellow light, because it changes the value, he transforms this silver knife into gold. Goldstein gots the Midas touch. Maybe thats what its about, touch, making the veiwer afraid to touch the knife, or enticing the viewer to want the knife
The Chair
Okay so I liked the fact that this video was extremely slow because it took me damn near the whole 7 mintues to figure out the chair was covered in glue. We use a chair to sit in so obviously i expected the feathers to take their seat in the chair but when they stuck to the back and arm rests i was like wait a minute is this a chair? I think the piece is most successful when feathers go behind and infront of the chair establishing a sense of space. I would have liked to see this piece continue until the entire chair was covered. I was left a little unsatisfied. Goldstein only hinted at the form of the chair instead of completely revealing it.
Gary Hill
Personally I don't find language very interesting, and obviously Gary Hill does. So on some levels I have trouble connecting with his work. What i did find inspiring from Gary Hills work is the techniques he uses to break down language. When Hill was experimenting with running into the wall and then lighting himself on the jump as he said the word, i felt like the word was exaggerated and obscured all at the same time. The impact of the jump and the light framed the word, but also distracted from it. It was a sensory overload in a moment's time. Another interesting technique was his attempt to say the words in reverse. The reversal of the word crippled its meaning would that same thing apply to my work in movement? Finally in Mediations Hill began burying the sound. I was so blown away by the spiral understanding of the words. Its like it starts out clear then spirals through static back to clarity, its a physical incarnation of that idea of a thin line between extremes. Like you go so insane you reach a point of sanity.
I really enjoyed how Goldstein was able to physically transform the knife without touching it. First Goldstein changes the knife from a solid object into an empty container being filled. The knife takes on the stance of a horizontal thermometer. The red of mercury rising with the temperture change displayed by the background. When the knife is overwhelmed with red light Goldstein gives a few moments for meditation. At this point i sort of disassociate the knife from temperature and just appreciate the reflections of light. I'm not really sure about the blue knife but i think about the juxtapostion of the connotation of blue which is calm and cool, or possibly frozen versus a knife which is used to cut, possibly cause harm but i think it sort of looks like a butter knife (not so harmful). The green seems radioactive. My favorite part of this piece is when the knife takes on the yellow light, because it changes the value, he transforms this silver knife into gold. Goldstein gots the Midas touch. Maybe thats what its about, touch, making the veiwer afraid to touch the knife, or enticing the viewer to want the knife
The Chair
Okay so I liked the fact that this video was extremely slow because it took me damn near the whole 7 mintues to figure out the chair was covered in glue. We use a chair to sit in so obviously i expected the feathers to take their seat in the chair but when they stuck to the back and arm rests i was like wait a minute is this a chair? I think the piece is most successful when feathers go behind and infront of the chair establishing a sense of space. I would have liked to see this piece continue until the entire chair was covered. I was left a little unsatisfied. Goldstein only hinted at the form of the chair instead of completely revealing it.
Gary Hill
Personally I don't find language very interesting, and obviously Gary Hill does. So on some levels I have trouble connecting with his work. What i did find inspiring from Gary Hills work is the techniques he uses to break down language. When Hill was experimenting with running into the wall and then lighting himself on the jump as he said the word, i felt like the word was exaggerated and obscured all at the same time. The impact of the jump and the light framed the word, but also distracted from it. It was a sensory overload in a moment's time. Another interesting technique was his attempt to say the words in reverse. The reversal of the word crippled its meaning would that same thing apply to my work in movement? Finally in Mediations Hill began burying the sound. I was so blown away by the spiral understanding of the words. Its like it starts out clear then spirals through static back to clarity, its a physical incarnation of that idea of a thin line between extremes. Like you go so insane you reach a point of sanity.
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