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October 12, 2005

Inspiration

I must say that I have been looking for inspiration for a good few days now and I just couldn't find enough from researching the web about Rodchenko's work. I know we're probably all supposed to react positively as to how great his work his, how he was a pioneer of his time and all the wonderful things he did. But from researching the net and reading the 'iconography of space' handout, I just was not inspired at all to do anything. Remembering our 'Blog' I finally logged in and read everyone's entries. I must say that was probably the best inpiration for me. Just seeing everyone's different reactions really touched me in a way.

I definitely connected more to the Rodchenko's strong will to recreate natural patterns through geometric rules. I think that in our daily lives we tend to forget, naturally, all of the building blocks from which our world is made of. I'd like to think that there is a direct link between nature's way of building its 'structures' and our way, as humans. I mean, after all, the structures of nature have passed through the greatest test of time - Evolution. And here we are, building all these great structures in our big cities, based on engineering rules that have only been established for some two hundred years?

There is certainly a tendency to move back to nature nowadays, and really appreciate the complexity and beauty of how things evolve naturally. Reading all of the reactions, I remembered a series of photographs that I took last year, which are quite similar to what Rodchenko was trying to do in one of his stages. I think I know now what I would like to do for the assignment.

Posted by Gilad Lotan at October 12, 2005 09:58 PM

Comments

Posted by: matthew jones at November 19, 2005 08:38 AM