LA LINEA: mi cuaderno café 8'36"
A short art film of my brown sketchbook (duration 8'36")
On straight lines (after Georges Perec)
“If I mend at this rate, it is not impossible...but I may arrive hereafter at the excellency of going even thus: _____________________________________________________
which is a line drawn as I could draw it by a writing-master’s ruler...
The right line, the path-way for Christians to walk in! Say Divines, - The emblem of moral rectitude! says Cicero, -- The best line! say cabbage planters, - is the shortest line, says Archimedes, which can be drawn from one given point to another.
(Lawrence Sterne, Tristram Shandy in Species of Spaces).
Also:
- The line as in the aesthetics of a human figure (esp. female figure) ie. ‘hay que cuidar la linea’.
- Line of work ie. of whatever stuff an employee is expected to produce or come up with. Generally from Monday to Fridays from 9:00am to 5:00pm in the anglo world or 10:00 to 21:00hrs in the Latin world or noon-ish to mid-night-ish in the architecture world.
- Line as in industrial design ie. ‘linea aéreo-dinámica’
- In-line as to maintain (or contain) someone under certain strict regime or discipline.
- A line of... as in...
And so on and so forth____________________________
Guillermo Aranda-Mena©2020
__________________________________________
Guillermo Aranda-Mena Ph.D.
Visiting Professor of Architecture
U N E S C O C h a i r i n M a n t u a
P o l i t e c n i c o d i M I L A N O - I T A L I A