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donderdag 4 februari 2010

a thought about over and over and over again

what if we think of hundertwassers theory of the "third skin"? according to hundertwasser there is a first skin or the one which covers our bodies. the second one are clothes. and the third one he claims, are houses and buildings we inhabit. now when we look at graffitti and especially at the example shown below, we see the "third skin" being renewed over and over again by Banksy and others. i'm just flippin, but think of the wall as a organic self organizing system. what does it consists of? smaller parts of course, something like the skin is made of. i think of cells.
now, we all know what cell division is. first of all its one of the major conditions of organic life. our skin renews itself constantly within a certain time period: the famous 4 stages of cell devision! remember? i had to learn about it in school. anyway, lets put these two thoughts together: hundertwasser's third skin theroy and cell devision. the wall would be then the skin. and the graffiti we see is the constant change of it.
Banksy heerin would be only a provider, a condition that guarantees the renewment of the skin, the wall. so he and all the other graffity artists cant help themselves they are the mitosis or a motor of the different stages of renewing the skin. the wall would be a system demanding by "natural" laws for renewment/reproduction. maybe we could even look at them (the sprayers) as cell cores who are parts of the fabric which produces an organic system made visble with spraycans, paint or other tools, whatsoever.
i can go even further now, being cell cores they would act from the inside of the system and hundertwasser would be wrong because we dont only inhabit theses skins, but we can also choose our "point of view" (inside/ouside). and graffity being very messy sometimes, looks like real organic parts that are inside of our body: ugly! thats also why grafitty in its own nature is so unsexy, comes "clean" or never obscene enough! like cell devision its a asexual reproducing system. we see the street as a blood line (f.e.gang wars, car accidents) the wall as blood vessel and the sprayers as chromosomes/genes...??

Hundertwasser - "Automobil mit roten Regentropfen"



graphic of an animal cell:

2 opmerkingen:

  1. i agree, interesting moving around thoughts till the next thought emerge...

    the core of being and becoming, i like this

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