This week, I watched the Robert Irwin movie and read his article, “Notes Toward a Model.” I inparticular like these quotes:

“As social beings, we organize and structure ourselves and our environment into an “objective” order; we organize our perceptions of things into various pre-established abstract structures. Our minds direct our senses every bit as much as our senses inform our minds. Our reality in time is confined to our ideas about reality.”

“Just how is it that our useful conceptual structures become those same hidden orthodoxies? The answer lies in part, in the nature of their development as from, an evolution which has transpired in such discrete stages and over such extender period of time that most often we come to their existence as form generations removed from their source. Since they are given to us whole, as independent sets of facts, even truths, it is no wonder we fail at times to recognize them for what they really are: terrestrially conceived, culturally compounded abstractions.”

This week I’ve also been focusing on narrowing down a site and a program. The site is 35 east 4th street, New York, NY - an empty lot.

I find the location exciting because it is the interior of the exterior, meaning it is the inside created by three buildings and a fence. The material qualities of this space are also intriguing. The next step is to focus on an activity. I have two ideas right now:

a place to experience eating outside and/or

a place to experience entropy (equilibrium tendencies)/time