{"id":240,"date":"2009-09-29T09:54:09","date_gmt":"2009-09-29T09:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.severalpursuits.org\/?page_id=240"},"modified":"2023-10-14T12:54:48","modified_gmt":"2023-10-14T12:54:48","slug":"words-on-work","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/severalpursuits.org\/?page_id=240","title":{"rendered":"WORDS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>PURSUIT: Steve Hollingsworth<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>nuomena &#8211; neomena<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Making a picture of an object with the purpose of its own making<\/strong><br \/>\nText by Tom O\u2019Sullivan<\/p>\n<p>Steve has been in a room high up in a block of flats and he sees the evening light<br \/>\nstrike the windows of the flats opposite. There is an urgent need to challenge and<br \/>\ntransform the time and space we are expected to inhabit and this urgency causes a<br \/>\nconcise and purposeful action to happen in space and time.<\/p>\n<p>A light moves quickly in the room and a trace of this light is left on the image. The<br \/>\nimage is a sheet of paper that has been passed through a copier machine to print<br \/>\nthe image. The action will begin a transformation that is beyond the immediate<br \/>\nconsequences of the action. The transformation is an action beyond the immediate<br \/>\nconsequences of the image.<\/p>\n<p>He has been standing in the forest and he senses the evening breeze brush against<br \/>\nthe trees. The making of an image of the action is the beginning of the<br \/>\ntransformation and the image is digital information transferred to a laptop<br \/>\ncomputer. The making of an object of the image is a continuation of the<br \/>\ntransformation. A wire shape has been made from the image and a neon object<br \/>\nfrom that shape.<\/p>\n<p>There is an urgent need to challenge and transform the time and space we are<br \/>\nexpected to inhabit and this urgency causes a concise and purposeful action to<br \/>\nhappen in space and time. He has been smashing a hard implement against blocks<br \/>\nof ice. Smash! The action has begun a transformation that is beyond the immediate<br \/>\nconsequences of the action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; PURSUIT: Steve Hollingsworth nuomena &#8211; neomena Making a picture of an object with the purpose of its own making Text by Tom O\u2019Sullivan Steve has been in a room high up in a block of flats and he sees the evening light strike the windows of the flats opposite. There is an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-240","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/severalpursuits.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/severalpursuits.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/severalpursuits.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/severalpursuits.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/severalpursuits.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/severalpursuits.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":866,"href":"https:\/\/severalpursuits.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/240\/revisions\/866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/severalpursuits.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}