on TEACHING
Teaching is the realization of one human’s thoughts in the company of others.
Others can only glean the benefits of coexistence if they realize the desire of one (teacher) to express that, which needs to be exchanged.
The exchange is of the one human (teacher) with the self (teacher)…
When in the company of one human a student is merely the other…
What then is a student?
A student is the one in time.
Alas, an observer, an absorber and critic of the moments before them.
The potential of thoughts pondered will inevitably reveal the observant student, the absorbent student; the critical student has
thoughts that can benefit others. Only then will the student have thoughts worthy of exchange. A student is potential…
Thoughts on instruction…
The teacher is an expression
The student as a potential.
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the STUDIO
The studio seeks to form a heightened awareness of things. Things are mental images that affect how we imagine potentials.
Potentials are that which is once
imagined that becomes textural as an experiential ambiance or mood.
What is the first potential but the self?
Studio is a forum that encourages exploration of the self.
The studio seeks to foster the growth of the individual in order to facilitate collective exchange.
The process seeks to determine the limits of the individual in order that the collective may shift predetermined notions
beyond that which is ephemeral. Knowledge is not given but assumed to be merely an awareness of things bound to unknowns.
We exchange moments at the table in order that thoughts become
patterns in form…
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the THOUGHT
The basic principle of posits that the design of things (potential objects derived from thoughtful processes) come
into being from an understanding or knowledge of ESSENCES. Then what herein does ESSENCE mean? An essence is an identified FORM.
Forms surface from properties composed or assembled into recognizable things (potential objects). Things exist as objects from which potential
experiences are expressions of thoughtful minds via ideal reification.
Divergent from existential thought that posits “existence precedes essence” surface theory supposes, “Essence precedes existence”.
Essences within the realm of design are manifest as a parcel of the designing subject that exists prior to objects generated. All objects exist as
mental potentialities subject to the acumen of the designing subject. That which is mental only becomes physical thusly sensible as a parcel of
one’s knowledge of the textual world. Mental phenomena precede physical existence rendering the thoughts and ideas a priori experiential modes
of being. Therefore, only imagined phenomena -- mental experiences or the mind -- can render
any phenomenological experience as a future potentiality.
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the WORK
SURFACES
What are the surfaces?
SURFACES are the conceptualization of FORMS that allow for a moment of
TOUCHING. A moment of TOUCHING - sensing or noticing - is a sense of one’s (designer’s) thoughts actualized as effects.
The ESSENCE of material formations (designed things) allows for an experience of PATTERNS. PATTERNS are the expression of thoughts
regarding TEXTURE. In order to understand patterns, one must advance strategies regarding FORMS. FORMS are derived when designers
employ REPETITION, VARIATION, and VOIDS as a means to express thoughts regarding TEXTURES. SURFACE, not space is the
conceptualization of FORMS because the process of determination (design process) only locates material formations, not spatial conditions
(energies). Spatial conditions are not requisite for the experience of FORMS. Spatial conditions are merely the residue of material
formations that are in form ideal reification.
What are the forms?