Tuesday, March 4, 2008

The Flux of Framing


So I've been really trying to grasp the concept of Flux in a way that I can competantly convey it in a cohesive presentation. Flux as I understand it is somewhat of an organized chaos and that exactly how it works for me. In thinking about all the different ways frames are used in the world I began to wonder about everything framed. Every single thing has a frame. Thus, flux takes on the task of organizing what seems to be complete chaos.


my skin is the frame for my body
my bones are the foundation of this frame


flux is the miraculous way everything sticks together


Everything works in this way. What is organized really isn't organized at all. It all just seemlessly comes together with what we see as very little effort at all. How amazingly chaotic! My project is coming into existence in quite the same manner. After all the rationalization, everything makes sense and the grass grows, the birds chirp, and we go on living in organized chaos.

1 comment:

forker girl said...

An organized chaos --you bet. One understanding of chaos that I sometimes lament is an understanding in which chaos means lack of order, but this word can mean a lack of an ability to make exact predictions about outcomes; the weather would be an example of this, the accuracy increasing with proximity to the time of the weather being predicted --what the weather will be like in an hour in a given observable location is likely to be more accurate than hat the weather will be like in that location the next day, next week, next month, net year --forms of weather might be known, some degrees/shape of cloud cover, some temperature --no chaos in weather being weather; in whatever form it takes, the weather that happens will be perceivable as weather.

Flux because the specifics can't be known; the details will vary within what is possible for weather (in external locations. Other options for weather exist in imagination; rules and laws can be overcome, yet imagination still behaves within the range of what is possible for human imagination).

Yes; i can see you point that flux takes on the task of organizing. Flux is a good deal of the dynamic portion of a dynamic system, the movement, though this movement is at times towards stability and organization and times towards instability and disorganization

--for instance, a particular weather system holds until a variable comes along, changes in pressure, intense solar winds, the colliding of high pressure and low pressure --an organized or organizing system can be reconfigured by this variable, the system stabilizing again, perhaps quite differently, but only for some length of time, and then...

Skin is quite an making frame, very flexible, able to grow, to stretch, tough once enlarged, it can be difficult to recompress, but parts of it can be excised without destroying it; skin can be stitched back together, often leaving evidence, scarring.

And there is a condition in which skin become so tight, bending let along growth is painful and difficult.

But a single skin --and skin is without a beginning line or ending line --a continuous fabric from before birth that is flux, changing over time.

And yes, yes, yes --flux as glue, the machinery itself --that's beautiful. Temporary yet powerful bonds.

The fabric of existence, assuming possibility of an allness, continuously knits itself.

Organized: here a chick, there a chick, everywhere a chick-chick as repetion of form across scale allows for intersections to flow in and out, to seek, apparently, reasons and locations to link for a little while.

Thanks for sticking this together.