a “cursory glance” at my work… part 1
By Rem / in thesis / August 15, 2009Select, calculated bold moves. A repetitive material palette consisting of both porous and non-porous materials. An approach that heavily focuses on the visual and retrospective experience or the huma...
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By Rem / in thesis / August 15, 2009In the past, the discipline to me was an understanding of presence, how objects rest in relation to the land and human experience. I also sought to impose my background in sculpture on landscape archi...
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By Rem / in thesis / August 15, 2009Continuing the quoting marathon that is The Consolations of Philsophy: And yet we should be grateful for the paradox. Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of...
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By Rem / in thesis / July 17, 2009Continuing my previous post on quoting Alain de Botton's The Consolations of Philosophy of all things relevant for the "future me" and all things profound for the present: The task of philosophy was,...
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By Rem / in thesis / July 7, 2009I'm trying to remember who it was who had three or four levels of transcendental? thought. I remember reading about it -- I can't remember if it was Goethe or Heidegger. My 3,500 word paper in Theory ...
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By Rem / in thesis / June 30, 2009That last post was mostly an incoherent babble. I think what I wrote there was mostly an attempt to establish the blog -- a "lorem ipsum dolar" so to speak. (sigh)It doesn't take a month to read a 2...
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A dusty bench, an overgrown path and a blank sketchbook
By Rem / in thesis / June 1, 2009A bench dusty with pollen, and not from under-use. That's where I am -- the start of my pre-thesis for my masters of landscape architecture degree at RISD.The path before me can be certainly viewe...
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