things

+ 'Things that Disappear if you Stop Looking at Them' v. 'Things that Disappear if Brought Into Full View', as well as 'Things that are Almost Things - but Not Quite'. I like the 'not quite'. It seems to relate intimately to 'things [that have to] pretend to be something else' as well as the experience of describing something that's not easily described or hasn't quite come fully into view. Cornelia Parker approached the status and categories of objects in relation to 'looking like' or 'being like' … 'but not quite'. Giving a home or an identity - even if a precarious and intermittent one - to those objects, situated on the border between being and not being. Still, even if applying a carefully fuzzied concept, a 'pretend' non-concept or the concept that values the 'not quite' as well as the 'quite', will it not still carry evidence to an underlying concept? A concept wanting to not be, but still somewhat and always being as sharp-edged as the diagrams that are surreptitiously or obviously trying to take over the world in determining what we see and how we see it. I don't pretend to know the philosophy (obviously!) but wonder how it can at all be possible to develop a concept that even if very fuzzy will no longer be still just a concept? It seems to me that in trying to do this and in order to see the chair for what it is as well as for what it might become -- we need to completely forget the concept and idea of 'chairness' and start again?

Backtracking, to a sharped edged and stright forward idea and in an attempt to begin using this blog as Research Tool and Journal, I'm leaving a small note regarding the Hypnagogic State and the Unusual Sleep Experience Scale as one potentially transferrable method for meassuring the 'Unusual Experience of Objects or Objectness'.