My wood sculptor friend, Vince, once showed me his piece, “a peach pit carved into a peach pit”. After reading this strange design loops chapter I think I slightly better understand his fascination with this meta concept inspired by Plato’s ideal world of forms. The ideal form of a peach pit is the symmetric pit which holds the balanced, maximal amount of flesh. So, the shape of an ideal peach pit is the perfect shape to carve into a peach pit. Peaches are also one of the simplest compositions of flesh ensphering bone. By carving the peach pits’ own form onto itself, one can ponder the way the shape of the fruit forms the shape of the pit and/or the pit forms the shape of the fruit in a perfect loop of tension between the formation of flesh and bone in tandem. The simple example a peach provides can expand to ideals of how the shape of our skeleton forms the shape of our muscles, and how ideally developed muscles pull on bones to perfect their density and form. The function of the peach pit carved into a peach pit, a piece of art intended to make you think about form, is determined by the form, the peach pit itself and its present imperfections.
Week 3: Strange Loops and Audiovisual Design
Week 3: Strange Loops and Audiovisual Design
Week 3: Strange Loops and Audiovisual Design
My wood sculptor friend, Vince, once showed me his piece, “a peach pit carved into a peach pit”. After reading this strange design loops chapter I think I slightly better understand his fascination with this meta concept inspired by Plato’s ideal world of forms. The ideal form of a peach pit is the symmetric pit which holds the balanced, maximal amount of flesh. So, the shape of an ideal peach pit is the perfect shape to carve into a peach pit. Peaches are also one of the simplest compositions of flesh ensphering bone. By carving the peach pits’ own form onto itself, one can ponder the way the shape of the fruit forms the shape of the pit and/or the pit forms the shape of the fruit in a perfect loop of tension between the formation of flesh and bone in tandem. The simple example a peach provides can expand to ideals of how the shape of our skeleton forms the shape of our muscles, and how ideally developed muscles pull on bones to perfect their density and form. The function of the peach pit carved into a peach pit, a piece of art intended to make you think about form, is determined by the form, the peach pit itself and its present imperfections.