Ideal Geometry and Power

God the Geometer, Codex Vindobonensis 2554, circa 1220-1230

To keep in touch with the beginning. The beginning is always beginning again every time we speak, think and build. This very keeping in touch with the beginning, with the place where nothing is yet determined, fixed, or decided and yet where Nature is suspended. This sits at the core of the power to recognise and listen to forms of relationality, and to work on them intuitively and to understand that have the possibility to be otherwise. But the beginning is not nothing, nor is it Nature per see. The beginning is with that aspect of reality, of politics and culture that has no apparent relationship with anything we can see or know. This transcendent aspect of form is a reminder of the lack of any fixed or destined way of working, thinking, living and so on.

The use of abstract geometry involves possessing the possibility to use the break, to suspend, to see relations and to thus work on their form, to make them otherwise. break again and again.

Through making something through creating something using the primary, the ideal and non-existent, one is also suspending.

It is an act of rematerializing the origin – if one keeps in touch with that power, they keep in touch with the ability to suspend and create reality as interrelationality.

One must go through poverty to go beyond poverty. The ability to establish poverty, to in some sense, destroy and wipe away, is power. But there is never an accumulation, one must keep in touch with poverty, must constantly re-enact it, to stay in touch with the power to suspend and create worlds. When one thinks, acts and builds one must carry the inessentiality of practice into the realised work. 

On of the problems with the maintaining of the ability to access this power, is that we cannot simply embrace the dissolution of our world without losing everything. Thus we must have something transcendent when we do the destroying, and we must create while we destroy. We must bring something into being that carries the innessentility of any act with it, into the creation of something. That is core of power. This is not nihilistic act but it’s the opposite. The ability to have something primary, beyond the earth, acknowledge all of those relations that make us who we are by suspending them for a moment, allowing us to see them, and thus work on them.

In other words, we can’t approach this threshold of nothingness, and thus divine creative power, and thus state of seeing and hearing unless we have a very clear and defined practice. 

To have something yet let go in the sense of opening a perspective on everything else.

Primary geometries, and the fact that they too have a life of their own, are angels that fight evil. That fight invisibilisation and obfuscation. The fight the naturalisation of that which has been entirely constructed. They are sources of the power to suspend and therefore construct the otherwise. Divine power. 

The invisibilisation (complete obfuscation to the extent that it never crosses our mind to even question the maleuability of this aspect of reality) of the constructedness of the thing so that there is no trace of how it came into being. 

The idea or the ideal, that abstract geometry in the imagination, is transcendent in that it doesn’t exist in material reality, it’s impossible,  but it has nothing except it’s perfection and it’s absolute primacy. It is something perfect but it has nothing else. It carries with it nothing. No ideology, no identity, no property, no function, no materiality, no fixity. 

It’s a vessel to see things with clarity, to let go of anything else. 

When come across Loos’ 2x4 foot mound you are witnessing the simultaneous creation and suspension of reality