liminality: anthropology and third space

I think the article found at the link below approaches the notion of gothic logic (of course they don't call it that) in an interesting way. Liminality and marginality as the place where new structures can emerge. Not fitting in with the status quo has a role! Who knew.

http://www.liminality.org/about/whatisliminality/

entrances and buttresses

This goes with the previous post, but I wanted to put in another picture. I thought Pam (others ?) might find this form interesting in terms of an entrance.

I was hoping to work with someone (Linda??) on a piece where I can put text on an object. I believe you were thinking of doing some acrylic tubes? Maybe we can see if we can work with zodiac parts of the rose window in St. Denis and make some abstract connections to that with the tubes and some text?

It might also be interesting to project something through the tube/text configuration??

Just some thoughts.

Weird Info about Cathedral, St. Denis

St Denis (the man/saint): (died 258?, Paris; Western feast day October 9; Eastern feast day October 3) Patron saint of France and traditionally the first bishop of Paris. Probably born in Rome, he was, according to the 6th-century historian and bishop Gregory of Tours, one of seven bishops sent to convert the people of Gaul during the reign of Decius. Little is known of his life; he is believed to have been martyred during the persecutions of the emperor Valerian. A 9th-century legend says that he was beheaded on Montmartre and that his decapitated body carried his head to the area northeast of Paris where the Benedictine abbey of St. Denis was founded.

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