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The System
benjamin harubin ©2022
8" x 14" x 8"
found objects, acrylic paint
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an artifact
artifacts are always maps and maps are tools. all tools are mapped to their use.
this is a more accurate world tree diagram of the human experience than can be found in many a medieval or ancient mystical text, if used correctly.
the universe can peek into the small universe and vice versa, through a variety of portals.
all the magical woo woo and extraordinary states of mind are examples of our ignorance of the ways in which information can flow through systems within & systems without.
"art", visual art in the art world of the present day, fulfills a number of different functions.
works of art are tools, sometimes wielded upon you and sometimes that you can wield upon yourself, sometimes as a bludgeon and sometimes as a portal through which mysterious energies can flow.
although we have to say that the concept of artefact production and 'tool use' as some kind of special defining characteristic of intelligence is specious and arbitrary. after all, we consider the shell of a mollusk an organ of the animal. the termite mound is an organ of the termite superorganism. are highways and skyscrapers any different?
more animals are being added to the list of tool users. the above is a track of where we've been. watch the window worms.
what people usually mean by the word think is the process of pre-vocal production of speech. speech, and the further translation into text, are inherently one dimensional.
all thought is one dimensional, like DNA spooling out of a ribosome, just a series of letters arranged in a single line, but how it interacts with the environment subsequently involves higher dimensions. to us linelanders, thoughts appear as if by magic out of the black.
