Equilibrium

"Ealing Lights #1 "                                                   photo: R. Allen-Sherwood 2015

"The dimension that counts for the creative person is the space he creates within himself. This inner space is closer to the infinite than the other, and it is the privilege of the balanced mind... and the search for an equilibrium is essential – to be as aware of inner space as he is of outer space". 

Mark Tobey, artist

Alkaline - Memory of Place

Alkaline from KALEIDA on Vimeo.

"Alkaline" is a labour-of-love dance project by Julie Gratz which took two years to complete from start to finish. I chose this particular video because I felt it demonstrates a nice way to straddle the time and space gap with organic motion. (with some help from special effects!) In this case, space becomes a memory of place.

A Gargantuan Bluescreen

In this fascinating documentary, American author and physicist Brian Greene introduces us to the topic of space in an easy-to-understand accessible manner, free from too much technical jargon.

Although the program was made prior to the discovery of the Higgs-Boson particle,, the information is still relevant. It's thought provoking stuff. Especially when Prof..Greene brings up the newest and craziest space theory towards the end of the show...

the title of this post is directly inspired by what one witty You-tuber posted in response.

Enjoy!

Space is a Doubt

                                                                               R Allen-Sherwood 2015

I would like there to exist places that are stable. unmoving. intangible, untouched and almost untouchable, unchanging, deep-rooted, places that might be points of reference, of departure, of origin.

Such places don't exist, and it's because they don't exist that space becomes a question, ceases to be self-evident, ceases to be incorporated. ceases to be appropriated. Space is a doubt. I have constantly to mark it, to designate it. It's never mine, never given to me. I have to conquer it.

                                                                                      R. Allen-Sherwood 2015

Space melts like sand running through one's fingers. Times bears it away and leaves only shapeless threads.

"Species of Spaces and Other Pieces"  Georges Perec