By Rob Rhee on May 16, 2013
“The word hermeneutic implies that there is a text or a text analogue through which somebody has been trying to express a meaning and from which somebody is trying to extract a meaning. This in turn implies that there is a difference between what is expressed in the text and what the text might mean, and furthermore that there is [...]
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By Rob Rhee on May 16, 2013
The same process that erases showerheads with mouths appends pictures with reasons. Looking inward the arrangement repeats itself, so that on my torso are orifices lined up in circumference–drains, vents, windows, a doorway–the way tattoos are strung together on the skin. I pull my head inside my body like a turtle and watch this room [...]
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By Rob Rhee on May 14, 2013
“A strange attractor is an attractor for which the approach to its final point in phase space is chaotic.” ¹ “In phase space the complete state of knowledge about a dynamical system at a single instant in time collapses to a point. That point is the dynamical system–at that instant. At the next instant, though, the system [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Chaos, James Gleick, strange attractor |
By Rob Rhee on April 25, 2013
Between New York City and Marfa, TX on a road trip with much planned in between, I can only recall there being kudzu and the sound of watchful front seat experiences bracketing my pressing in and out of upright sleep. With the cold plane of the window saddling a flat spot on my head I rocked [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged "interesting", Aspect Blindness, Biography, Chinati, Donald Judd, duck-rabbit, Historic House Museums, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, judgment, justification, Kudzu, Le Baiser/the Kiss, Marfa, Mies Van de Rohe, Minimalism, Ray Monk, Rosalind Krauss, Sianne Ngai, strange attractor, The Farnsworth House, the Pythia, Thomas Hart Benton, Wittgenstein |
By Rob Rhee on February 23, 2013
In early 2009 I attended a panel discussion entitled “Improvisation and Ethics.” The goal of the panel was to define the importance of freedom, as a philosophical concept, to Jazz, as an improvised collaborative activity and therefore circumscribed by ethics, or vice versa. Of the five panelists, all were distinguished professors of philosophy and three were [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Arnold I. Davidson, Butch Morris, Foucault, Hardedge, Improvisation, Jazz, Lydia Goehr, The Stone |
By Rob Rhee on January 4, 2013
How many Saturday mornings began by groaning here in unmatched gloves? How many slates, plaques, or strange scales were pulled from the roof and paraded around the yard in the form of an eternal pilgrimage, resting here and there while awaiting some revelation whose reception seemed perpetually jammed by the particular atmosphere of the present. [...]
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By Rob Rhee on December 6, 2012
Today I dropped off my to be sandblasted, primed, and powder coated (sprayed with a colored, dry polymer that is baked on at 390 degrees Fahrenheit). The powder coating is necessary to protect the steel from rusting. Rust, amorphous in color, texture, and pattern, has been my nemesis lately. I’ve been noticing it on train [...]
Posted in Still Life, Studio | Tagged Hannah Arendt, Jessica Stockholder, Marcel Duchamp, Robert Shiller |
By Rob Rhee on July 16, 2012
Posted in RobotTree.com | Tagged sculpture |
