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To view some examples of Laura's curve art, take a look at our Gallery In curve art, space receives the response of a curve. Together they receive and respond in a spatial-relational flux not unlike Alan Rayner´s description of receiving-responding flow-forms in his theory of Inclusionality. According to Alan, "space, far from passively surrounding and isolating discrete massy objects, is a vital, dynamic inclusion within, around and permeating natural form across all scales of organization, allowing diverse possibilities for movement and communication." Space provides the opportunity for relationship and movement and communion between things. Space however is not merely between things but also permeates all things, being included in matter and form. As such we must include space in our view of the world, as a receptive presence which is actively and dynamically involved in all formations and in all relationships communing these formations. The following poems and prose were written to express the spatial-curvature relationships of Curve Art as I experienced them. When I first began this form of art, I had a deep sense that I was exploring something profound and yet simple. The simplicity of the Curve Art is often a single curve on a piece of paper, accompanied by a basic statement: "All forms can be unfolded into combinations of curves expressed in space and over time". Not until I came across Alan and his writings on Inclusionality did I realised the deep significance of what I was exploring. Inclusionality provided a scientific and philosophical framework that resonated so exquisitely with the art and poetry I was only beginning to understand. I was compelled to continue. And the implications of such simplicity are far reaching… Unfolding & EnfoldingThe curves and the space Are not one-leading-the-other But both unfolding into the other Until movement happens. A FascinationI am fascinated by the relationship between a line and its context - between curvature and the space that allows for it. And where do I exist in all of it? Am I not also a line curving this space? Do I not also bend when I weep, arch and reach when I can? Are not all natural forms, combinations of curves expressed in space, over time? So that we have curves and we have space but one cannot be named without the other. Both are informers and receivers of form, and together they are One. So when I bend do you not also, or else reach to catch me? How Sensitive is a Line?How sensitive is a line? Have you asked one lately? Have you asked how it would like to bend And be born into itself as much as Into another Simultaneously becoming more and Offering more of itself? Have you asked? Symmetry BreakingThe symmetry of the blank page communicates a need to be touched and moved. So a curve is drawn. This movement then informs the space around it. The space receives the movement and it too responds. But receiving and responding are not separate actions. The receiving is the responding; space responds by receiving, by allowing itself to move with the motion of the curve. Thus a singular movement is created and it both informs and responds, and in doing so it entices the coming into being of another curve. This new curve then informs and together the curves and spaces engage in movements of informing and receiving until meaningful form emerges. |
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