AMALGAMATION

AMALGAMATION

EXPERIMENTATION IS THE MEDIUM THROUGH WHICH I EXPLORE, BUT THE DIVERSITY OF DISCIPLINES I ENGAGE WITH HAS MADE DEVELOPING A CONSISTENT LANGUAGE CHALLENGING. EACH DOMAIN HAS ITS OWN TERMINOLOGY, METHODOLOGIES, AND STANDARDS, MAKING IT DIFFICULT TO CREATE A FRAMEWORK THAT CAN ADAPT TO THIS VARIETY WHILE REMAINING RECOGNISABLE AS PART OF A SINGLE BODY OF WORK.

I’VE BEEN THINKING ABOUT WHAT THIS LANGUAGE COULD LOOK LIKE—A SYSTEM THAT IS FLEXIBLE ENOUGH TO TRANSLATE ACROSS DISCIPLINES YET COHERENT ENOUGH TO TIE EVERYTHING TOGETHER. SUCH A LANGUAGE WOULD NEED TO EMBODY THE ESSENCE OF EXPERIMENTATION: A WILLINGNESS TO TEST, LEARN, AND ADAPT, WHILE MAINTAINING A CORE IDENTITY THAT GROUNDS THE WORK AS A WHOLE.