it’s a small world (on christo’s doherty’s photos)
we say “it’s a small world”
hence it’s a “small worlds”
the title is a play of worlds
a world play
but what is a world?
we speak of the earth as the world.
a system complete in itself
an autonomous system
of course this autonomy is an illusion
the world is, and part of, the solar system.
which in turn is in, and part of, the milky way, a galaxy, and so on
worlds within worlds
a world’s autonomy does not preclude its existence as part of, as a component of, and in, other worlds
this is metaphysics
the alchemical formula for this understanding of how worlds work is : as above so below
another way of putting this: the universe in a grain of sand
our understanding of the world, of our world, of any world, is predicated on a worldview; which is a framework, or a model of the world
the function of a model of the world is to explain the world.
how does the world work?
how did it come into being?
what is its relationship to other worlds?
in order to understand our world; the world, any worlds - we need to construct reliable models.
our studying of these models is the basis of knowledge.
it is what in philosophy is called epistemology.
finally, to re-iterate: worlds are always the building blocks adding up to bigger worlds.
and all worlds, in their turn, are made up of building blocks that we might call small worlds.
improvised section about christo as carl linnaeus
taxonomy
the artist as dj
the framing defines the series as art
these are photographs of worlds
but now the photo series itself, the taxonomized image sequence, becomes a world
and this is how all worlds work
and this infinite inter-connectivity of all worlds is why there is only one world
and this, once again, is metaphysics
nothing is not connected
it’s a small world
aryan kaganof
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