to blog or not to blog

We started writing and I'm not sure if we were ready.  On the phone you said you were not sure about blogging as it wasn't writing, or not the kind of writing we need to start doing.  I thought about this and I think I probably agree.  Blogging is a kind of writing you can do when you find it difficult to do other sorts of writing.

I think sometimes when we write together we try and start to do a certain type of writing too early.  We have great conversations and big ideas and imagine an amazing book or articles but then we start to write it and it all sounds shit.  Then we find loads of literature that sort of say the same things we want to say and often say it better.

That's why I put the film of Jeremy Corbin in its from the Durham minors fair just after the 2017 sort of victory failure election when we thought anything was possible or at least the possibility of what was possible was very different to what had come before.

I think we have made a start which is good but we need to iron out some building blocks so we have some foundations of thought that we can build on.  Its then OK to argue about how we build the house and the extensions of the thought but we need to know something about the foundations and the lay of the land.  That is a good use for a blog like this that nobody else will probably ever read however clever we are.

“The whole is other than the sum of the parts.” — Kurt Koffka

I did a bit of reading about design and Gestalt ( which just means form in German)  but I thought this might be a good start as we haven't got around to really talking about what you mean by form we really just talk around it. As our 'proper' writing we have done so far really seems to talk about disciplines then it would be good in this more discursive space to talk about how form and discipline interconnect.

As a sculptor by training form used to mean the discernible edges of a material thing in space.  Look at a Brancusi or a Henry Moore and this is simple as the Form of the work ends often quite clearly at the boundary of an object.   We can look at this through different lenses and be speculative about the nature of matter and the levels of connections the viewer and the author intention and language - it is not difficult to complicate the idea of form or gestalt here but in simple terms the thing that draws our attention has clear edges and outside and an inside and can be perceived as an autonomous whole - a form that does not require anything but itself to be what it is- a sculpture.