From one piece to the next
I am watching a video of Isamu Noguchi explaining his work on YouTube, and the part where he explains the progression of his work felt inspiring to me.
I once concerned myself with working with space. I used to watch Martha Graham’s dance classes and became more and more conscious of a sense of sculpture as a part of the landscape and a part of moving bodies. I go from one piece to the next. It’s a continuous development. It’s not something that I have intellectually arrived at as a way of doing things.
This feels familiar because I have been struggling with "intellectually arriving at" (in a similar sense to Noguchi’s use of the phrase) a structure where my thinking would surface through my interlinked notes in a way that is plain and obvious.
Instead, I chose to stop, step back, and start with a simple structure, and see where it leads over time. I plan to develop this site "piece by piece, as a continuous development," as Noguchi says, by making a habit of adding more notes and writings and gradually expanding its functionality around my needs.
I hope where I arrive will be a place beyond what I could have intellectually conceived of at the beginning and the progress of getting there is as valuable as the place that I’ll discover.
Thanks Noguchi.
