Parallel Universes

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"All the black holes found so far in our universe from the microscopic to the supermassive may be doorways into alternate realities.

According to a mind-bending new theory, a black hole is actually a tunnel between universes, a type of wormhole. The matter the black hole attracts doesn't collapse into a single point, as has been predicted, but rather gushes out a "white hole" at the other end of the black one, the theory goes.

According to the new equations, the matter black holes absorb and seemingly destroy is actually expelled and becomes the building blocks for galaxies, stars, and planets in another reality."

If, a black hole absorbs all the energy and matter there is around it and instead of destroying it completely, it transforms it in primal matter that forms a new space, a new universe, what happens to existing spaces if they go through a black hole? Do they loose all recognizable structure and forms, but retain their original context? Are they broken down into parts that become building blocks for a new space? What happens where no space or time exists? The scientific, philosophical and spatial aspect of this theory is mind-boggling and completely abstract, yet fascinating. I take the assumption that my site goes through a black hole and becomes destroyed, deconstructed but remains intact in some form. The principles of the site are not the recognizable space any more, it is not about the perspective of the street, the bricks or stones of the walls, but it is about the individual parts that can be cut up, re-assembled and re-structured, thus making a new space, a new site, based on the elements of the previous one. Even though the concept of absolute nothingness is intriguing and challenging spatially, I aim to de-construct my site as much as I can, without it losing all of its formal qualities. The process and "tunneling" between one reality to its hyper-reality status, will have to be a destructive one, a dream like process, which can be repeated endlessly and in numerous ways.

Re-Assembling the Space First Attempt

Collage First Attempt from evelyn on Vimeo.

 First attempt to make a photo collage using stop motion technique. Having worked extensively with Cinema 4D, I went back to very basic film making methods, looking at the concept of de-constructing the space and re-structuring it. The idea is to present a different viewpoint of the space, going back to my original investigations of it, where I made architectural collages of many parts of Portobello and then took photos using a kaleidoscopic device. Here, I am literally "tearing" it down and re-assembling it. The aim is to find the fundamental aspects of the space, the ones, without whom the space is unrecognizable. Although in principle the idea works both visually and conceptually, in execution I will re-do it, as the frames are not clear enough, the shooting is more loop sided than I want it to be and the parts are not cut small enough. I want the final version to be cut into shreds, almost nothingness.

Deconstructionism

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Baptiste Debombourg

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Frank Gehry

A philosophical movement and theory of literary criticism that questions traditional assumptions about certainty, identity, and truth; asserts that words can only refer to other words; and attempts to demonstrate how statements about any text subvert their own meanings

In art and literature, a tendency to subvert or pull apart and examine existing conventions having to do with meaning and individualism. Whether using language, images, or building elements, deconstructionists raise questions about meaning, materials, forms and other aspects of artistic expression.

Deconstructing

Analyze (a text or a linguistic or conceptual system) by deconstruction, typically in order to expose its hidden internal assumptions and contradictions and subvert its apparent significance or unity

( To break down into components; dismantle.

: to take apart or examine in order to reveal the basis or composition of often with the intention of exposing biases, flaws, or inconsistencies <deconstruct the myths of both the left and the right — Wayne Karlin>

: to adapt or separate the elements of for use in an ironic or radically new way <uses his masterly tailoring skills to deconstruct the classics — Vogue>

Deconstructivist Architecture

an architectural movement or style influenced by deconstruction that encourages radical freedom of form and the open manifestation of complexity in a building rather than strict attention to functional concerns and conventional design elements (as right angles or grids)

Deconstructivist Architecture focuses on seven international architects whose recent work marks the emergence of a new sensibility in architecture. The architects recognize the imperfectibility of the modern world and seek to address, in Johnson's words, the "pleasures of unease." Obsessed with diagonals, arcs, and warped planes, they intentionally violate the cubes and right angles of modernism. Their projects continue the experimentation with structure initiated by the Russian Constructivists, but the goal of perfection of the 1920s 1s

subverted. The traditional virtues of harmony, unity, and clarity are displaced by disharmony, fracturing, and mystery.

Dissolving

1. To cause to pass into solution: dissolve salt in water.

2. To reduce (solid matter) to liquid form; melt.

3. To cause to disappear or vanish; dispel.

4. To break into component parts; disintegrate.

5. To bring to an end by or as if by breaking up; terminate.

•    To become fluid; to be melted; to be liquefied.

•    To fade away; to fall to nothing; to lose power.

•   To convert into a liquid by means of heat, moisture, etc.,; to melt; to liquefy; to soften.

•    To break the continuity of; to disconnect; to disunite; to sunder; to loosen; to undo; to separate.

• To solve; to clear up; to resolve.

•  To separate into competent parts; to disorganize; to break up; hence, to bring to an end by separating the parts, sundering a relation, etc.; to terminate; to destroy; to deprive of force; as, to dissolve a partnership; to dissolve Parliament.

•    To waste away; to be dissipated; to be decomposed or broken up.

   To relax by pleasure; to make powerless.

•   In chemistry, it is the act of solvation, when a solid is mixed into a liquid, creating a solution. Mixing salt into water is an example. Upon evaporation, the dissolved parts usually come out of solution and reform the solid.

   In film and video editing, it is one way of changing the view. For example, a scene        fades (changes slowly) from a bright day to all black.

What dissolves paper?

Dissolving paper is more difficult than one might think. While certain bio-degradable paper can be easily dissolved in water, most commercially used paper is significantly more durable; its near-neutral pH requires strong acids to dissolve it completely. Hydrochloric acid, also known and marketed commercially as muriatic acid, is sufficiently strong to dissolve paper. Strict safety precautions must be followed to avoid accidents caused by its acidity, toxicity and volatility, and the acid must be neutralized before disposed it.

What dissolves rocks?

Strong acids like: 
-muriatic acid 
-alkalines 
-hydrofluoric acid

Disintegration

The process of coming to pieces

•  the disintegration of infected cells

decomposition: in a decomposed state

1. The act or process of disintegrating.

2. The state of being disintegrated.

3. Physics & Chemistry The natural or induced transformation of an atomic nucleus from                a more massive to a less massive configuration by the emission of particles or radiation.

: to break or decompose into constituent elements, parts, or small particles

: to destroy the unity or integrity of intransitive verb

: to break or separate into constituent elements or parts

: to lose unity or integrity by or as if by breaking into parts

: to undergo a change in composition <an atomic nucleus that disintegrates because of   radioactivity>

Dream Sequences

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Commonly, dream sequences appear in many films to shed light on the psychical process of the dreaming character or give the audience a glimpse into the character's past. Other times major action takes place in dreams, allowing the filmmaker to explore infinite possibilities, as Michel Gondry demonstrates in The Science of Sleep. Harvard psychologist Deirdre Barrett points out in the book The Committee of Sleep that, while the main content of dream sequences is determined by the film's overall plot, visual details often reflect the individual dream experience of the screenwriter or director. For Hitchcock's Spellbound, Salvador Dali designed sharply angled sets inspired by his own dream space. Ingmar Bergman lit dream sequences in several films with a harsh glare of light which he says reflects his own nightmares (though most people's have dim light), and Orson Welles designed a scene of the trial to reflect the manner in which architecture constantly changed in his dreams. Films normally present dreams as a visually accessible or objectively observed space, a discrete environment in which characters exist and interact as they do in the world rather than restricting themselves to the subjective point of view a dream is normally experienced from in real life. In this way films succeed in presenting a coherent dreamed world alongside the diegetic reality of the film. Via transition from one to the next, a film establishes not only the boundaries but resonances between the two worlds. These resonances can reveal a character's subjective observations or desires without breaking away from the objective viewpoint of the narrator, camera, or director with which some theorist, such as Christian Metz, believe the viewer identifies.

In classic Hollywood, the wavy dissolve was the standard way to transition between reality and a dream; there would be a close-up of the character having the dream, which would begin shimmering as we crossed over from reality to fantasy. One of the most common contemporary transitions into a fantasy is to zoom in on a character's face and then spin around to the back of that character to reveal that he/she is now standing in an alternate reality. Perhaps the most common technique today is the post-reveal in which a character is shown in an awkward or unusual situation, the scene builds to an even more absurd or unusual situation, and then suddenly there is a cut to the character waking up.

Spellbound Dali Dream Sequence

Science of Sleep Michel Gondry