Seven days of creation, Context: the  Spirit hovered over the waters and darkness was over the surface of the deep.Seven days of creation, Day 1: division of light from darkness.Seven days of creation, Day 2: division of the surface above and the surface below.Seven days of creation, Day 3: division of the sea and the land and the earth’s potential .Seven days of creation, Day 4: the cycle of the day.Seven days of creation, Day 5: division of the life of the sea and the life of the sky.Seven days of creation, Day 6: humans.Seven days of creation, Day 7: rest.Reverse creation, Day 5: The reconciliation of the life of the sea and the life of the sky (Context, Day 6, the reconciliation of  humans).Reverse creation, Day 4: The reconciliation of the cycle of day.Reverse creation, Day 3: the reconciliation of the sea and land.Reverse creation, Day 2: the reconciliation of the surface above and the surface belowReverse creation, Day 1: the reconciliation of light and darkness..The cycle of the day, geometry of the reflective phenomenon, 12 hour cycle, viewer is in motion.The cycle of the day, geometry of the reflective phenomenon,  24 hour cycle, viewer is in motion.The cycle of the day, unfolding the geometry with respect to the horizon (morning-day-morning-night), viewer is in motion.The cycle of the day, unfolding the geometry with respect to the horizon. (morning-day-night-morning), object is in motion.The cycle of the day, the geometry manifesting the  phenomenon.
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The thesis imagines Cain’s invention of weights and measures (per biblical historian, Flavius Josephus) as an attempt at reconciliation. It understands measurement – the division of a whole into equal units – to be concerned with precision, objectivity, maintenance of equilibrium, and justice. The first of three drawing series shows the Genesis creation story as a progression of spatial and architectonic icons, with respect to division. The second group of drawings looks at reconciliation in the context of a reverse creation, vis-à-vis the deconstruction of a series of still lives showing spaces reflected in, and seen through a window – a framework distilled from the first drawing sequence. The final set of drawings observes a phenomenon which reflects the creation story’s most egalitarian event (the inception of the cycle of the day), analyzing its geometry, and arraying it in the light of the other creation story phenomena – the ultimate hope being to configure with it an architecture of harmonizing spatial and temporal experience.
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The Mark of Cain and Cain's Mark
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