----------empyre- soft-skinned space---------------------- Dear Kat and all, What a wonderful story, "The Fog Horn," by Ray Bradbury. Here is a link that I found online. http://www.grammarpunk.com/lit/gp/THE_FOG_HORN.pdf
Kat you wrote: <snip> Looking backward, it's easy to feel patronizing toward the mysteries of past generations, assuming we've chased away the shrouds of myth and lore with logic, science and invention. But I'm happy to be reminded of what's unknowable. In my recent work, I've been making solar-powered messages to be worn on the body. It's the beginning of a series of pieces that will be self-sufficient in their power needs, and an opportunity to think about making technologies/traces/signs that might be received by an unknowable audience.<snip> Astrology for me opens up cultural questions that I am assuming might be misinformed. Would love to hear what Arshiya or others think about this and perhaps there is a researcher out there that would chime in? Could there be a significant difference between the understanding of the astrology and the signs of the zodiac in the western part of the hemisphere where the horoscopes and the like are posted in popular culture sources that always emphasize the individual? In India and eastern cultures astrology appears to me to lend itself for a pathway to sense the world in a more global sense, less individualistic. Kat perhaps Aquarius gives us cause to embrace lore, legend, myth, the unknowable inspired by logic, science and invention. Your incredible piece uses technology to make the link between. Technology becomes like Aquarius a way to make connections. Would love to know your thoughts? Weary today after a very long few days of teaching. Best. Renate _______________________________________________ empyre forum empyre@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au http://empyre.library.cornell.edu
