Projects > Knowledge of Life, or the imagination is a function without an organ 2003 - 2012
M.M. Collage on "The Elements of Euclid" by Oliver Byrne. London: William Pickering (1847). 84 panels.
Book I: Euclid/Ovid; Metamorphoses and The Four Ages.
Book II: Euclid/Mallarme; L'Apres midi d'un faune.
Book III: Euclid/Ovid; Erysichthon.
Book IV: Euclid/Bataille; Language of Flowers.
Book V: Euclid/Borges; Library of Babel.
Book V/VI: Euclid/ Malabou; First Incision.
Book VI: Euclid/Arendt; Being and Appearance.
The entire volume of Euclid's explanatory text is collaged over page by page while leaving the diagrams intact. The work proceeds by a slow process the artist considers one of "speculative infection." It is a private cosmology of the world as divided into two sets of things; one which is composed of the fundamental constituents of the universe - invisible to the eyes, known to science, real and yet valueless -and the other which is constituted of what the mind has to add to the basic building blocks of the world in order to make sense of them. "Knowledge of Life" draws from writing collected throughout her career and is perhaps best described as the act of tracing an idiosyncratic path to immanence.
The entire volume of Euclid's explanatory text is collaged over page by page while leaving the diagrams intact. The work proceeds by a slow process the artist considers one of "speculative infection." It is a private cosmology of the world as divided into two sets of things; one which is composed of the fundamental constituents of the universe - invisible to the eyes, known to science, real and yet valueless -and the other which is constituted of what the mind has to add to the basic building blocks of the world in order to make sense of them. "Knowledge of Life" draws from writing collected throughout her career and is perhaps best described as the act of tracing an idiosyncratic path to immanence.
