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One of the rhythms of the ‘dérive’ is achieved by a walker switching their focus between different foci, varying their distance from what they examine, oscillating the collective gaze at each other with the romantic gaze to the horizon. Falling for nothing.
While there is a mental aspect to this rhythmical looking, it is also a de- and re-composition of landscape.
As the ‘drift’ progresses, the rhythm of these switches can begin to take a compositional form, patterns emerging that operate across the different scales.
Helpful readings for developing a sense for these cross-scale rhythms: Dynamic Patterns by J. Scott Kelso, Growth and Form by D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson and anywhere you can find out about J. A. Froude’s ‘law of steamship comparison’.
Human beings – overwhelmed by the sleight of hand of the speed of light – are sensorially excluded from most of what happens in the universe. But knowing about such hidden things – the curvature of space, the force of attraction of one mass to another, the wave-particle duality of light – all adds to the slippery and ideal pleasures of walking through space.
The Doctor: “I can feel it. The turn of the Earth. The ground beneath our feet is spinning at a thousand miles an hour, the entire planet is hurtling around the sun at sixty-seven thousand miles an hour, and I can feel it. We're falling through space, you and me, clinging to the skin of this tiny little world…”
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While there is a mental aspect to this rhythmical looking, it is also a de- and re-composition of landscape.
As the ‘drift’ progresses, the rhythm of these switches can begin to take a compositional form, patterns emerging that operate across the different scales.
Helpful readings for developing a sense for these cross-scale rhythms: Dynamic Patterns by J. Scott Kelso, Growth and Form by D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson and anywhere you can find out about J. A. Froude’s ‘law of steamship comparison’.
Human beings – overwhelmed by the sleight of hand of the speed of light – are sensorially excluded from most of what happens in the universe. But knowing about such hidden things – the curvature of space, the force of attraction of one mass to another, the wave-particle duality of light – all adds to the slippery and ideal pleasures of walking through space.
The Doctor: “I can feel it. The turn of the Earth. The ground beneath our feet is spinning at a thousand miles an hour, the entire planet is hurtling around the sun at sixty-seven thousand miles an hour, and I can feel it. We're falling through space, you and me, clinging to the skin of this tiny little world…”
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