Ouverture

Again From A Personal Point

What I need / want / crave is not a vacation, nor absolute prowess, nor recognition. Now I “seldom” write extensively, since words have their own limits. Being a witness of a few events in my short life, emotion is the only universal catalyst — while words, despite their precision and relatively easier reproductivity, could be understood only by people who are familiar within the language in which the words were written in.

In other words, what I would study is not the expression, but the universal law behind expressions. I chose to pursue the visual arts simply because of its universality and its ability to contaminate every single person with perfect or imperfect vision.

Appendix. While composing the dire, dreaded, tiresome, pedantic statement of purpose I subconsciously (or unconsciously) named such trip an odyssey of meanings. This is one dilemmatic word — “meanings”.

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The Duplex Odyssey

Taking its dimensions into consideration, CNC-ing the Duplex is simply out of question — the machinery certainly is able to deal with the ~0.1 millimeter slot, but my budget could not (that is, estimated NT $15,000 per item if CNC-ed) if the quantity is limited. Else if other techniques were utilized (id est, not sending it into CNC) it would not be that unaffordable.

The morale of this note is that when you make junk in large quantities, its large number itself and the lowered overall cost to possess a single item actually facilitates the process, hence more junk could be made and consumed in the same time. Isn’t it ludicrous? An advocate against mass production relying on its possibility to lower overall cost-of-ownership…

The wisest decision for me might be putting this idea on my “shelf of abandoned, never-continued ideas” and pull it back down in five or ten years. I will definitely make 1 CNC-ed copy then.