2006.2.1

It's been a while and there's a lot going on! Fortunately, it so far seems to be revolving|evolving around the same ideas.

Still though, in the quest of finding a system that would record and impose some sort of order onto the material ideas that has been amassing during and after our visits to Doncaster and now Cannon Hall, I've been thinking about the possibilities for exposing one system by describing it -- processing and presenting it -- through the [visual] language of another. All of this, naturally, considered in the most non-scientific and non-academic of ways.
Immediately, I like the obviousness [undoubtedly etymological? must be, no?] of the electrical circuits ability to describe an organisation: expect examples of diagrams complete with notes on capacitors, resistors -- and potential circuit-breakers (there's always one) Through the 'library' of google, I've even found a system for reforming the 'capacitor' here and through the same search protocol, an example of Benjamin Franklin's Leyden Jar Capacitor (above) ... looking suspiciously like a museum object!

And ? ... although the reading evoked might be a sentimental one, the [immense potential for] narrative in such a seductive artefact (and language) seems impossible to avoid? particularly when, because of or despite the fact that some information is missing?