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Choking Hazard by Juan Alcazaren
How the world is perceived is not fully fathomed by mere sight for how Bachelard disparages at the incompetence of the eyes as : "Despite its perceptual sophistication , the eye cannot necessarily go beyond a description of surface : sight says too many things at the same time".
Perhaps this is what induces a child to compulsively stuff its mouth with the bit and parts that stray cross its crawlpath, as though full cognition rests on the palette, curiosity sated by mincing mastication of world reduced to its pulpy essence. As though the very action of chewing predates spoken language, replacing words with the primacy of eating, as awe and wonder reiterated by savory gustation. But not everything is to be partaken of in this manner, however delightfully retinal they may appear. Such is the delusion of visual seduction where all fall prey to. The more a thing is splendidly swathed the more it yields or rather conceals a deadlier trap. Yet the more unassuming ones aren't equally spared from this devious guise. But the unbound curiosity for the unknown is not without its fatal consequence.
The paintings are mostly made up of outline drafts of bits and parts of some archaic gadget, floating on stained fields of vermillion that approximates the blood-red stains of tomato catsup on a white table cloth. These bits and parts seem to form a pattern as like the exploded views of strange outmoded tools whose silhouette is superimposed over these drawings, and layered by a tangerine outline of Escheresque structures, in a muddled composite of map, diagram and instruction to its very assembly, as paintings parsed from their tiered morsel of field, material, subject and effect. However the habit of viewing doesn't trail on the same deconstructed track for sight is always eager to see everything all at once as one would gulp air in one big inhalation, resulting either in a gaping mouth in an overwhelmed awe or a twitching pucker in a choking desperation for a gasp of air.
Truly, to fully experience world is a matter of consuming it, as Alice had been instructed to and had done- eating the cake she was told to eat and drinking from the vial she was told to drink. It is a surrender, a submission that gourmand Anthony Bourdain continually does being offered the odd mystery meat from some wild hunted game.
Perhaps this is what induces a child to compulsively stuff its mouth with the bit and parts that stray cross its crawlpath, as though full cognition rests on the palette, curiosity sated by mincing mastication of world reduced to its pulpy essence. As though the very action of chewing predates spoken language, replacing words with the primacy of eating, as awe and wonder reiterated by savory gustation. But not everything is to be partaken of in this manner, however delightfully retinal they may appear. Such is the delusion of visual seduction where all fall prey to. The more a thing is splendidly swathed the more it yields or rather conceals a deadlier trap. Yet the more unassuming ones aren't equally spared from this devious guise. But the unbound curiosity for the unknown is not without its fatal consequence.
The paintings are mostly made up of outline drafts of bits and parts of some archaic gadget, floating on stained fields of vermillion that approximates the blood-red stains of tomato catsup on a white table cloth. These bits and parts seem to form a pattern as like the exploded views of strange outmoded tools whose silhouette is superimposed over these drawings, and layered by a tangerine outline of Escheresque structures, in a muddled composite of map, diagram and instruction to its very assembly, as paintings parsed from their tiered morsel of field, material, subject and effect. However the habit of viewing doesn't trail on the same deconstructed track for sight is always eager to see everything all at once as one would gulp air in one big inhalation, resulting either in a gaping mouth in an overwhelmed awe or a twitching pucker in a choking desperation for a gasp of air.
Truly, to fully experience world is a matter of consuming it, as Alice had been instructed to and had done- eating the cake she was told to eat and drinking from the vial she was told to drink. It is a surrender, a submission that gourmand Anthony Bourdain continually does being offered the odd mystery meat from some wild hunted game.
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