Quote with major influence, David Hockney. “You can’t escape perspective, any single film is a perspective picture, that’s the source of perspective, perspective came from optics, perspective is the law of optics actually. Optics is the branch of physics that studies the behaviour and properties of light.”
Updated Conceptual statement:
Auckland City Business district, a collage of perspectives and time. simultaneous chaos disguised as routine. We live together, oblivious of how others are experiencing time and space, trapped in our own heads – impossible to experience others. Assumptions become common. Time is fluid, slows, increases rapidly while maintaining a constant. Time is a reliable source, something to rely on always being there, however slips away when we least expect it. Society is a recipe, merging beings on their journeys together. Journey through time, constant anticipation. Ignorance is a limited frame, a forced perspective through our own eyes, As film snatches our freedom of the narrative, manipulating our perspective to aline with the producers. Observing time externally a false feeling of control and power. An illusion that you can manipulate that is God made; a superiority complex.
A meeting place, a place to rest, escape times pressure, a place of no expectations, a place to think, a place to be calm, a place to sleep. An in-between.
Shell Sybomlism – Pipi shellfish
Paphies australis or pipi (from the Māori language) is a bivalve mollusc of the family Mesodesmatidae, endemic to New Zealand. The pipi is a shellfish with a solid white, elongated symmetrical shell with the apex at the middle. The pipi is abundant on flat sandy beaches, in sandy and silty mud in estuaries, and harbours where there is considerable water flow.
By releasing a thread of mucus, which makes them more buoyant, they are able to float in the water column and move to new locations. Where they find good living conditions, their numbers can exceed more than 1000 individuals per square metre.
Pipi are edible and easily collected for food; traditional cooking methods include boiling and making into fritters. They are often used as the “clams” in clam chowder. The harvest limit in New Zealand is 50 per person per day, and although a minimum size is not stipulated in the regulations, only larger pipi should be taken. For Māori, pipi are a traditional food resource, and in earlier times were gathered in specific flax baskets made for this purpose. Smaller specimens would fall between the woven strips and back into the beds to grow as the basket was gently swirled through the water.
Maximum length is 83 millimetres, and height 51 millimetres.
Te Rou Kai (the food gathering), a former pipi bank between the mouth of Te Waihorotiu and Point Britomart on the eastern side of the bay (ACC 2004d);Te Whatu (the rock), said to have been a rocky ledge jutting into the tidal creek, and therefore a convenient landing place for canoes located somewhere near the foot of Shortland Street (Nepia 1931); Te Tara Karaihi (a tern), a rock opposite Te Whatu on the western side of Queen Street, where it is said terns gathered waiting for food occasionally thrown out by incoming food gathering parties; Nga u Wera (the burnt breasts), near the mouth of Te Waihorotiu, where the stream once emptied into Horotiu Bay (Commercial Bay). According to one story, children from two settlements often went down to the foreshore to spear patiki (flounder). A disagreement arose, leading to a quarrel, and then a full-scale battle on the mud flats (Auckland Star 1931).
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Pipi are edible and easily collected for food; traditional cooking methods include boiling and making into fritters. They are often used as the “clams” in clam chowder. The harvest limit in New Zealand is 50 per person per day, and although a minimum size is not stipulated in the regulations, only larger pipi should be taken. For Māori, pipi are a traditional food resource, and in earlier times were gathered in specific flax baskets made for this purpose. Smaller specimens would fall between the woven strips and back into the beds to grow as the basket was gently swirled through the water.
Shells are usually perceived as feminine; a symbol of birth, good fortune, and resurrection. Bivalved mullusks represent the womb and fertility. life protector; in Tibetan Buddhism, symbolises hearing; one of the eight emblems of good luck in Chinese Buddhism.
In Hindu faith, conch shells and cowrie shells are used in puja, these two types of shells are particularly significant. Because of their association with the sea, which connects distant places, shells are supposed to enhance travel luck as well as strengthen long-distance relationships. Seashells also provide relief from stress and offer a protective shield. Shells are also a symbol of good communication, positive and healthy relationships and prosperity. However, Feng Shui lays great emphasisis on the direction in which any object is kept, so as to derive the right kind of benefits.the same holds good fro sea shells as well. For strengthening marital relations: Placing shells in the south-west corner of the bedroom helps bring a couple together and also strengthen the relationship. For protecting your home: Placing sea shells on a window sill will attract good energy.
- For good luck: Keeping sea shells in a basket will bring much needed luck in your life.
- For a stable career: Decorate on a table top to have a prosperous career.
- For better learning for children: Place sea-shells in the north-east sector of the living room to strengthen education.
- For greater wealth: Decorate a water fountain with sea shells. In Feng Shui, a flowing water fountain symbolises money flowing into the house. Adding sea shells helps protect that money.
- For better family ties: Place sea shells in the kitchen to create harmony and strengthen family ties.
- For better relations: Decorate a photo frame with the picture of the person concerned with shells or place shells around the photo, to strengthen your relationship with the person in the picture. This works because shells help develop relationships, bring good energy and improve communication. It follows, naturally, that with sea shells, your communication with the person in the picture will improve.
- The bigger the better: Pick up a big and attractive shell from the beach or underwater (in this case, ensure that no living creature is inside whose home it may be) as the bigger, the better, under Feng Shui. If placed in the south sector of the living room, it enhances the reputation of the occupant.
Along with big, smooth sea shells also have special value in Feng Shui.
http://www.hakaimagazine.com/features/the-symbolic-seashell/
Well, in Feng Shui, seas-shells come loaded with luck. … Seashells also provide relief from stress and offer a protective shield. Shells are also a symbol of good communication, positive and healthy relationships and prosperity.
Shells are associated with the third eye chakra of opening vision, intuition and spiritual insight. It also holds properties associated with release and purification as well. Conducive to healing shells acts as a balancing tone, creating a feeling of peaceful rest associated with the heart chakra.
Chapter Five: Shells, page 141.
Manipulation of natural land. Straight line cuts and hides the history beneath it.
Walk way from Site to queens arcade.. moment of perspective over fort lane
Wednesday, 11th August 2021.
Formative presentation
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