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The eye travels along the paths cut out for it in the work.
Pedagogical Sketch Book (1925)
The work as human action (genesis) is productive as well as receptive. It is continuity.
Pedagogical Sketch Book (1925)
The work grows "stone upon stone" (additive) or
The block is hewn "chip from chip" (subtractive)
Both processes, building and reducing, are time bound.
Pedagogical Sketch Book (1925)
The father of the arrow is the thought: how do I expand my reach? Over this river? This lake? That mountain ?
Pedagogical Sketch Book (1925)
Already at the very beginning of the productive act, shortly after the initial motion to create, occurs the first counter motion, the initial movement of receptivity. This means:
the creator controls whether what he has produced so far is good.
Pedagogical Sketch Book (1925)
Structural concept in nature:
The grouping of the smallest recognizable entities in matter:
Bone matter is cellular or tubular. Ligament structure is a sinuous-fibrous web.
Tendons are continuous with the connective tissue of the muscle, strengthened by cross grain.
Pedagogical Sketch Book (1925)
Receptively it [the work as human action] is limited by the limitations of the perceiving eye. The limitation of the eye is its inability to see even a small surface equally sharp at all points. The eye must "graze" over the surface, grasping sharply portion after portion, to convey them to the brain which collects and stores the impressions.
Pedagogical Sketch Book (1925)
The contrast between man's ideological capacity to move at random through material and metaphysical spaces and his physical limitations, is Uneven lengths and uneven angle-degrees of the point-rudder result in a deviating course. the origin of all human tragedy. It is this contrast between power and prostration that implies the duality of human existence. Half winged-half imprisoned, this is man!
Pedagogical Sketch Book (1925)
Thought is the medially between earth and world. The broader the magnitude of his reach, the more painful man's tragic limitation. Thought is the medially between earth and world. The broader the magnitude of his reach, the more painful man's tragic limitation. To get where motion is interminate.
Pedagogical Sketch Book (1925)