I'm thinking about the dust from a gutter outside the skip waste recycling centres on Albert Road and how I don't know what the dust is, what it contains. Only the dust knows what it is.
Visual knowledge limits us. I'm looking up an article with the search term 'human visual knowledge' with the hope to find out more...I'm not allowed access to the full articule, the irony isn't lost on me, but the abstract suggests in plain language the things humans can see, and not see, and think about about and understand. There are things humans can see and name and think about, things around them, like the cat on a bed, things they can't see, but can through representations and can think about, such as atoms or molecules, and things they can't see but can understand in abstract terms, like theories or belief systems. How ideas come about isn't necessarily conencted to the external visual work, but perhpas more to an internal visual world where the imagination in fills.
Infilling with the imagination feels like a useful way to take these thoughts as I begin a series of writings to extend how I see and think about the materials I'm using, rubbish tip dust, landfill leachate and mine waste. In-filling with the imagination, back-filling with the imagination. What isn't known os often described in quite physcial terms, gaps in knowledge or understanding, a gulf in understanding. And these seem situated in a physical landscape.
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