‘Thus wrote the first philosopher of place, Archytas of Tarentum: To be at all is to be in (some) place.

Another Land, Nicky Coutts 2006, pp.22

Like the spider with its web, so every subject weaves relationships between itself and particular properties of objects; the many strands are then woven together and finally form the basis of the subjects very existence.

Jakob von Uexkull, Existence, Space, Architecture by Christian Norberg-Shulz:pp9

DS Untitled 2011

‘Writing is silent. Barren white spaces hold the cryptic black marks of text. Margins impose an imaginary wholeness, even as they establish a border of difference. They contain the marks and signal their separateness from other texts. I know something about margins and the centres they create. I know that the borders of any frame are permeable; other ideas, other texts come in to flood any ideas of originality or sense of ownership. Centres are relative, malleable and polydimensional. Margins are continually transforming, reforming and deforming their parameters. The ideas I present are never completely mine. They are compiled of a chorus of voices, a story told through other texts shaped into a speech/text through a tongue that has been twisted to an easy conformity. In citation there always exists the error of deficit. Continue reading →