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(continued)
The Four Conditions” is a project equally invested in the power of images (to inspire, motivate, signify, and pleasure) and the power of the text (to imagine and legitimatize). The play of this project can be found in the individual components and in how they work together:
The Event images recall promotional posters, promising an event attainable through belief and will, with attention to the visual as catalyst. The accessories (Crystal Crowns, etc.) are depictions of objects of fancy and desire; promising gadgets that owe much to our relationship with material.
The Condition Columns elevate and honor the 4 Conditions in a manner that resembles a cross between the fetish of machine parts and art objects. In fact, all components of the Columns are typographic, each panel contains the letterforms of all four conditions, with 3 of them propping up the apparently sculptural 4th.
The Control Towers are figments, also typographic in origin, and meant to function imagistically and imaginatively. The souvenir text pamphlet is a take-home object that contains all the writing from the Event “posters”.
The writing is an important part of the overall project; it is in the writing where ideas belonging to hard science are seamlessly interwoven with the speculative and faith-dependent metaphysical. As a souvenir, the pamphlet aspires to be a phenomenological tract and a do-it-yourself guide. The writing also appears as a dynamic text project published on-line, where it performs in two versions: fast forward and slow fade.