Collect Art Publication July 2023

The Change Part 10: Objectness, Second Iteration

She needed certainty.

A repeated path well worn.

Security, reiteration, peace, comfort.

All this she found in her singular pattern.

Nineteenth century American quilt block pattern

In nine patch formation.

Linked to an object

A time, a state of being

A Southern-Bible-Belt state, cardinal red.

Connected to objectness

Theoretical object

Dream object (the chair)

The dream-state-trance she hypnotised herself into

Astral travel across 5000 miles,
every night to be with the one she loved.

The pattern has many names

The construct is half square triangles set in opposition.

Imagine a chess board kitchen floor

In a Medieval villa in Perugia or Assisi

Frescos on the wall

Warm dry

Fragrant with olive, mint, rosemary, dog.

Imagine this chess board

Dark and light tiles in opposition to each other, perfect balance.

Then imagine each tile sliced diagonally left to right, right to left

And the pieces moved into a mathematical puzzle

Creating a new configuration

Of tints and tones.

Seen a certain way the pattern is lozenges.

Viewed another way the ornament is cotton-reels and bow-ties.

Pure logical abstraction.

Yet chaos.

A thrown rune, fallen to the earth

Fontana’s slashed canvas

A window through which is seen a doorway,

Through which is viewed a section of another window,

Through which is glimpsed a Vermeer night sky

Bluest of azurite, lapis blue

Post-sunset.

And now she starts to comprehend
the complexity of the objectness of the object she has created.

The layers of colour,
meaning,
intent
she has, trance like applied to this flat object.

Creating deep objectness.

In this newly crafted thought-work entity.

Objectness
and the thoughthingability
of the workpiecentity.
becomes evident
in the heart of the maker
and the skin of the object.