Thursday, February 5, 2009
Proportions ands Systems
We have talked about how the world is seen from different perspectives and that many believe that their is a proportional system that dominates the natural forms around us. Do you agree with this? Is this just an attempt to explain what we really don't understand, and are people deciding that proportions go beyond symmetry and try to blur the lines between proportion and cause and effect?
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I think that prportion would have existed regardless if we wouldn't have discovered it but to the extent that we try and link everything to one another is a false interpretation of six degrees of seperation theory. It is a fact that the world around us is linked but only through our existence. I think we do try and figure out a relationship to give ourselves justification to things. We as a people try to explain everything, no matter the topic, there is a sense of overwhelming curiousity to why things are the way they are. Proportion maybe be the link but as we try and find the reason behind them i think that it is a forced recogniion. Proportions do go beyond symmetry i believe because when i think about proportion it is the realtionship to one another that determine them. How will i know if something is enlarged or smaller without a context to relate? That to me is what proportion is all about, relationship, and that is the way we see it in our buildings.
ReplyDeleteBut are you trying to reason proportions, for the sake of reasoning? An anthill displaces dirt proportionally to the tunnels built by the ants, but are the tunnels proportional to one another, do the inner chambers deal with one another? Even though these tunnels are built by ants, and you could argue that the actions on the environment by a thinking creature can disregard the proportional systems, than you have a broken system.
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