where is the container?
Thinking of the human body as a container and containted is quite fun and interesting. from skin containing my body down to the mitochondria in a cell containing energy for that cell, the body both contains and is contained on a multitude of different levels, especially interesting when thinking about the body, or the body of a sheep, is that it all happens concurrently. Again further exploring is the act of ones body creating containers and things contained, such as Goldsworthy containing twigs in the air. How long are things contained? Goldsworthy projects are often short-lived, if lived in his ideal at all. As I breathe, I contain air, but I exhale that air as well. A short-lived container. Once it is exhaled it is contained by something else, but do I ever re-contain the exact same air? I suppose I must. The transient nature of contain. Where is the container? everywhere all at once. Everything can contain. I think, maybe not pure energy, what does it contain? Perhaps on extreme microscopic scales things do not contain but are only contained. Oppositely, are things extremely large, say the whole universe, not contained and only containers?
posted by Alex at 21:15
2 Comments:
I'm very interested in what you consider here, especially about whether there is multiple encounter with the same molecules of air —and in the cycle of respiration, the air of exhalation isn't the idential air that was inhaled. The interaction processes the air; oxygen is utilized by cells. There is a filtering that occurs.
Also of interest is your observation that containment happens according to a multitudes of time scales. Cycles of containing and being contained instead of a more stable identities. Containment is more flexible than rigid.
or what about containment theory, like cold war era type stuff where the US was afraid of communist influence?
On another note.
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