sculpture – Robert Parker

25 Nov. 7:00 pm

“A thing is the meaning of an idea.” George Boole (1815-1864)

Sculpture is the Art of the Thing

Beside the ferocious light of the forge, an object is worked towards some idea that could make it a thing. Perhaps it is squaring-the-round that Jacob Lischer has tasked you to the length of a bar. Then POINT(s) : he has instructed you how to ‘draw’ the thickness over the edge of the anvil … then snipping your attempt between hammer and hardy. And another and another. Matter and space are the limits. And you try to perfect the ‘point’. People are watching. You are the ‘apprentist in exhibit’ at expo 67.

And then you read some Euclid. “A POINT is that which hath no parts.”

Which is clearly demonstrated here as the place where the mass drops to zero .

And then,”A LINE is the distance between two points.” But what is the question?

That we are calling a thing an idea: its presence real and its idea imaginary gives reciprocal meaning to the identity that says ideas are things.

Boole puts the symbol as: 0=0 . And its meaning is a-thing-is-itself or (A is A). I like the symbol and have forged it in steel.

The notion that ‘a thing is itself’ – is the meaning of identity – asks a question where Euclid again promises that ‘it cannot be an other’; so identity serves as a separation. ‘Joining’ is commutation where AB=BA and demonstrably asserted by equality. This is synthesis. Nuts and bolts hold the parts of a building’s girders together. The forces – energy – are “contained”.

NOT like this __undifferentiated individuated identity

‘ONE LINE’ (therefore one-dimensional) BLANKET HOOKS . carbon steel . 14″ . 2024 .
PALEOLITHIC NUT CRACKER . stone (w. Paired dimples aka 4) . And therefore quadratic much as TWO SQUARED = 4 (therefore “flat” or meaning 2-dimensional – as is the commuted proposition)

And this much as the ‘key-hole’ is demonstrated in this flipped gestalt (pic). It circles around an imaginary point .

That we are calling a thing an idea: its presence real and its idea imaginary is proof that ideas are things.

ithin the truism there is a place where all things are equal .

That we are calling a thing an idea: its presence real and its idea imaginary is proof that ideas are things.

But this ‘thing’ has two ends. And crucially space is not mass.

If we are asking if something is real ….? … our question has already equated what was essentially a balancing act.

CRACK HEAD . forged steel . 1994

The work is a combination of space and mass where the binary gestalts have been introduced by the meta-physics of geometry and logic .

BASIC SHAPES

Here Leibniz is demonstrating that : Aristotle’s ‘syllogism is transitive’ . Sculpture models its shape.

And compounds that revelation with possibilities, permutations and combinations . But art as sculpture brings the domains of figure, ground…space and mass … the self !

And again, this to “a thing is the meaning of an idea”. That the syllogism has three-dimensional aspects is in itself a revolution of concept and ought to be celebrated as a breakthrough. For it separates the ‘terms’ as single dimensions and then structures them in a commutative and then transitive gestalt. This links the idea to the thing which might associate to a better communication or wat!

2;30 am

The meta-square is inherently ‘perfect’ as an idea; but as a thing , it is an approach. The intriguing difference between reality and the imagination is not lost in function but ; embodied.

Contrary to our conventional, contemporary, and popular nomenclature, the imagination here is treated as classically absolute , coherent while reality is conditional . Where the imagination is inferred, the empirical proof is in its reciprocal reality.