Untitled (detail) Pencil and gouache on paper 30cm x 42cm © 2010 Tammy Lu “It seems that reference is not simply the act of pointing or a way of keeping, on the outside, some material guarantee for the truth of a statement; rather it is our way of keeping something constant through a series of … Continue reading untitled 21
Untitled Pencil and gouache on paper 30cm x 30cm © 2010 Tammy Lu “Instead of the vertical abyss between words and world, above which the perilous footbridge of correspondence would hang, we now have a sturdy and thick layering of transverse paths through which masses of transformations circulate. (…) ‘It refers to something there’ indicates … Continue reading untitled 20
Untitled (detail) Pencil on paper 30cm x 30cm © 2009 Tammy Lu “The unbelievably small and the unbelievably vast eventually meet, like the closing of a gigantic circle.” Richard Matheson, The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) Continue reading untitled 19
Untitled Pencil and gouache on paper 16cm x 27cm © 2009 Tammy Lu “Whenever we use certain things for attending from them to other things, in the way in which we always use our own body, these things change their appearance. They appear to us now in terms of entities to which we are attending … Continue reading untitled 18
For Speculations: The Journal of Object Oriented Philosophy. Thank you to Paul John Ennis for adopting this image. Untitled Pencil and gouache on paper 16cm x 27cm © 2009 Tammy Lu ”When it comes to the ‘vertical’ relation between real objects and their accessibility to others, the real object is always something more than the … Continue reading untitled 17
Democracy of Objects (detail) Pencil on paper 50cm x 65cm © 2009 Tammy Lu “But what is an apparatus? First of all, it is a skein, a multilinear whole. It is composed of lines of different natures. The lines in the apparatus do not encircle or surround systems that are each homogeneous in themselves, the … Continue reading untitled 16
Untitled (detail) Pencil on paper 65cm x 50cm © 2009 Tammy Lu On either side the river lie Long fields of barley and of rye, That clothe the wold and meet the sky… (…) There she weaves by night and day A magic web with colours gay. She has heard a whisper say, A curse … Continue reading untitled 15
Detail of a zine made for the Fools’ Experiments exhibition at the Bournemouth Natural Science Society (BNSS), 24 August 2009 – 5 September 2009. Untitled (detail) Pencil on paper 42cm x 30cm © 2009 Tammy Lu “In the naturalist’s collection things happen to plants that have never occurred since the dawn of the world. The … Continue reading Apparatus
For the New Metaphysics series at Open Humanities Press, edited by Graham Harman and Bruno Latour. New Metaphysics Pencil on paper 42cm x 30cm © 2009 Tammy Lu Continue reading New Metaphysics
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