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Example of microcosm4/2/2023 In my own personal mythology I was born from the earth, and many of the things I do are aimed at refreshing and articulating that awareness for myself and others. This infuses everything I do, both the forms and the activities. One of the original connections between the earth and my body is sexual. The complexities work out from this juncture. I’m interested in the earth and myself, or my body and the earth, what happens when they become entangled with each other and all the things they include emblematically or metaphorically like my body being everyone’s body and the earth being where everybody lives. How do all these things relate to each other? There are two films of this (1971, 1973).ģ) Dwellings: Since 1970, most of my time has been spent going around the streets of New York building clay dwelling-places for an imaginary civilization of Little People who are migrating through the city.Ĥ) Project Uphill: For the last year I have been working with the Lower East Side Coalition for Human Housing and the community on East 2nd Street, designing a park-playlot-a hilly landscape between Houston and 2nd Streets, Avenues B and C construction begins in the spring. ![]() I lie down nude on the earth, cover myself with clay, remodel and transform my body into a landscape with clay, and then build a fantasy dwelling-place on my body on the earth. This exists as a 16mm film and a double series of 24 time-lapse color photographs.Ģ) Landscape/Body/Dwelling: (First done 1971). We suggest how self–assembling microstructure might be used in the development of new surface coatings and drug delivery mechanisms.1) Birth: In 1970 I buried myself in the earth and was reborn from it. We show how development of these new concepts may give rise to new materials with properties that have been tried and tested by organisms over millions of years of evolution and which, by their very nature, are more compatible with humans and their environment. Here we assess the developments in the understanding of colloidal systems in microscopic biological construction and demonstrate how these have given rise to new concepts regarding the relationships and evolution of the gene and organismal structure. Yet such a system is unrealistically simple to the biologist! The investigation of the behaviour of mixed colloidal systems is essential in the formulation of concepts regarding microscopic structural development in order to further both our understanding of biological construction, and to give rise to new developments in microscopic materials technology. The introduction of a third component into such a system clearly increases the diversity of interaction (and concomitantly, the difficulty of interpretation). The interactions of spherical polystyrene particles in an aqueous or organic fluid, for example, have been well documented. Chemists therefore tend to restrict the number and diversity of components within any system being studied in order to minimize this complexity. ![]() Colloidal interactions, however, are themselves complex. It is an emerging theme that through the evolutionary history of life, self–assembly of structure from colloidal building blocks has become integral to the process of organismal development. The importance of these ‘colloidal interactions’ is becoming increasingly apparent to biologists seeking the link between the genetic basis of structure and its ultimate expression. ![]() Operating on the microscopic scale, at the size range called the colloidal dimension by synthetic chemists, is a gamut of interactions between the various components, which in many cases can lead to the formation of complex structure as an entropically favourable process. To the human eye, viewing this exquisite complexity, the method of construction is often far from obvious. Complex microscopic structure is a common feature in biology the mineral shells of single–celled aquatic plants and animals such as diatoms, coccolithophores, radiolaria, the organic coatings of pollen grains and the surfaces of many seeds are all familiar examples.
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