Direct Radical intuition: DE-centering the black box within MA 'space-time interval'

Abstract

DIRECT Rad·i·cal in·tu·i·tion: DE-centering the black box within MA ‘space-time interval’ The process in the creation of my work in ‘studio furniture’ and the underlying research has its INTENTIONS in the elaboration of how ideas as ‘Direct Radical Intuition’ steeped in an Eastern perspective can be manifested into the ‘presence of making’. EXPLORATIONS into the physical making of the works will be revealed as ASSOCIATIONS in personal narratives describing how and why the process unfolds in Japanese Zen and Western Post Modern philosophical contexts. CONNECTIONS will be made through the forms of wedges and shims in the works to underpin how the Japanese concept of MA; ‘space- time interval’ and Post Modernist concept of de-centering is ‘working in the works.’ ‘Direct Radical Intuition’ allows the designer/ artist to look within and beyond self and culturally imposed boundaries. This insight leads toward an effortlessness embodied in a Zen saying of ichi-go ichi-e; ‘one time, one meeting.’ IMPLICATIONS thus can be made into the ‘presence of making’ that informs ‘a way of seeing’ into the vast creative human potentials. Charles S. Ellis_ 05.22.2013