Rock, Paper, Scissors

Paper covers rock
chriseddy

Rock
Nomadic cultures all required weaving as a basic technology for living long before architecture’s textual permanence. Weaving cultures are lost to today’s scientists, archeologists, and anthropologists. Like its procreators weaving is nomadic and non-fixed; decaying back into the organic dance that it was borrowed from. Weaving presents the mind with structural organizations and possibilities. Could the scratches in stone, the petroglyphs be born out of these lines? The lines that taught us to map the stars and the deserts. And the lines and folds that may have taught us the necessary structures for spoken language. Showing us the way to understand the lines and folds needed to develop architecture in stone.

Paper
The interlocking fibers of paper act like rhizomes. Each fiber being the center of their own intertwining. Until all the fibers become one great tapestry of chaos with each being a centre of locking. The result of this being the ordered plane of a piece of paper.

Scissors
Folding and cutting paper mirrors or inverts the nomadic activity of weaving. They both are technologies that set out a predetermined structure for the building of a more complex language. In the case of weaving it is the strings of lines (warp) that creates the basis of forming the pattern or language. And with the paper we see it is the folds that function as the structure. The cuts being the human interventions that unfold into a new language.