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
Untitled (detail) Pencil on paper 65cm x 50cm © 2009 Tammy Lu “groping for a switch–he hit it and the room sprang towards him […] At what point does one say of a man that he has become unreal? […] We would think ourselves continuous with the world if we did not have moods It … Continue reading untitled 11
Untitled (detail) Pencil on paper 46cm x 42cm © 2008 Tammy Lu “For neither in tailoring nor in legislating does man proceed by mere Accident, but the hand is ever guided on by mysterious operations of the mind. In all his Modes and habilatory endeavours an Architectural Idea will be found lurking; his Body and … Continue reading untitled 10
Untitled (detail) Pencil on paper 46cm x 42cm © 2008 Tammy Lu “A well-defined state of affairs is the work of many forces. They agree about nothing and associate only via long networks in which they talk endlessly without being able to sum one another up. They intermingle, but they cannot reach outside themselves to … Continue reading untitled 9
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