June 15, 2011

Positive Sign #30

by Christine Wong Yap

Positive Signs is a weekly series of interpretive diagrams, quotes, and speculations on creativity, optimism* and the lives of artists, published every Wednesday through June.

positive signs: the human body is that part of the material universe we know most intimately. it is not only the condition for experiencing the world, but also an accessible object whose properties we can always observe. yi-fu tuan. space and place.

Christine Wong Yap, Positive Sign #30 (The human body and the material universe), 2011, glitter pen on gridded vellum, 8.5 × 11 in / 21.5 × 28 cm.

 

*Notwithstanding brief forays into the nature of space, stuff, experience, and cognition.

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Next Wednesday: Positive Signs #31 & 32 on symbolic ecology and domesticated objects.
See all Positive Signs to date.

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