Space, Time and Architecture needed to be revised.

Sigmund Gideon introduces the fourth edition of his seminal text on architecture with this call to action.

My revision of his book is a process consisting of three significant steps.

Firstly, over 20 percent of the text has been crossed out with a black felt marker leaving only the contours of letters, forming a more condensed history of space.

Secondly, close to 70 percent of the book has been covered with white ink, creating a thin sheer.
The blurry suggestion of knowledge occupies each page, but the hard fact of its printing obscured to a vague impression.

Thirdly, the images are left to stand alone, allowing them to be read separately from the intended context of their caption.

In this new form, a visual metaphor is achieved. Through its editing, a ratio of dark matter, visible matter, and dark energy is represented in literal terms. The book is reinvented as an object that represents the knowledge it fails to hold on to and the history of science, art and architecture are revealed as dynamic and interweaved.

Thus, the historical narrative of mankind's effort to define space is revealed in his failure.

6 prints emblematic of this process:

The Laws of Nature, transparent film inkjet print, 24 by 18.
Foreword, transparent film inkjet print, 24 by 18.
Fragments, transparent film inkjet print, 24 by 18.
Overemphasis, transparent film inkjet print, 18 by 24.
Continuity, transparent film inkjet print, 24 by 18.
Form, transparent film inkjet print, 24 by 18.

The book:

Space, Time & Architecture, felt marker and water-based ink on paper, 5 by 7, 881 pages. Edition of 1

This project is part of a show with Cybele Lyle at Royal NoneSuch Gallery from January 13th to February 26th, 2012.