Cloud Busting!

A little taste of genius for your Thursday.

Haste Haste little Chiron

After an interesting sequence of events, the planetoid Chiron has been impressed in my mind...

Chiron's discovery: astrological chart

Chiron, the planetoid that lies between Saturn and Uranus, was discovered in 1977 by American Astronomer Charles Kowal. Chiron's strange gravitational path crosses over the orbits of Saturn and Uranus and for that reason, astronomers concluded that this planetoid could not have been in the solar system for more than two million years because it would have either crashed into Saturn or Uranus, or been caught by their gravitational pull and become a moon. If we examine Chiron’s elliptical orbit, its perihelion and aphelion in Libra and Aries, respectively, map this out over time and correlate it with human history, we begin to see a definite cycle. Individually, this plays out over 49-51-year cycles in our lives. The elliptical nature of Chiron’s orbit means that this cycle’s nodal points differ from person to person and from generation to generation. Individually, this traces the waxing and waning of our inclination and ability to address and deal with our Wounds.


The wounded leg of the centaur, Chiron, symbolizes the woundedness of our lower nature—a nature that sees one side of the world while repressing, ignoring, denying, disowning, condemning and/or failing to acknowledge the other balancing sides. Such is the origin of blame. Chiron’s message is only understood when we understand and appreciate that the world we see around us is a world of perceived duality. Everything in existence has an equal and opposite companion, albeit often hidden from us in the beginning. Modern quantum physics concurs with this view in its conception of matter and anti-matter.

In search of sound.

Backwards Walking Straight, 2009

This is a clip from one of three video pieces I have been working on this semester. After an amazing screening and lecture from Deborah Stratman, I'm finding that my attempts to source sound are proving to be much more difficult and less seamless then expected. Deborah is a Chicago-based filmmaker whose works intermingle between experimental and documentary. The Magicians House is a beautiful representation of her rich and intellectual aesthetic, as well as her impeccable sound design. More about Deborah and her work can be found here: pythagorasfilm

Saturday: a day for new wave 80's rock and yoga

My lazy Saturday will consist of watching Robert Frank's 1988 film Candy Mountain, and will soon be followed by some serious yoga time... In a perfect world I could do this everyday!

Latest Obsession:

Parc Avenue by Plants and Animals. 

Escapism

I'm in the process of doing research on Richard Misrach's Desert Cantos series for an American Art seminar class, and I happened to stumble upon this little literary gem Escapism written by Geographer Yi-Fu Tuan in 2000. Tuan is such a captivating writer, and I'm finding that his chapter on Hell relates so much to Misrach's three cantos entitled Violent Legacies. Don't let the title fool you, Tuan shows that escapism is an inescapable component of human thought and culture and should not necessarily be considered as negative. I'm loving it!

Apple Picking?

The question of the day is whether or not to pick apples in Oregon for six months...