The Little Green Dot

 SG 2022 Myth or reality? Reflections on readings from Jacques Desrrida while sketching Singapore’s most sustainable buildings:

“ The study of myths raises a methodological problem, in that ti cannot be carried out according to the Cartesian principles of breaking down the difficultly into as many parts as may be necessary for finding the solution. There is no real end to methodological analysis, no hidden unity to grasped once the breaking-down process has been completed. Themes can be split up ad infinitud. Just when you think you have disentangled and separated them, you realize that they are knitting together again in response to the operation of unexpected affinities. Consequently the unity of the myth is never more than tendencial and protective and cannot reflect a state or a particular moment of the myth. It is a phenomenon of the imagination resulting from the attempt at inter parea timón; and its function is to endow the myth with synthetic from and to prevent its disintegration into a confusion of opposites. The science of myths might therefore be termed “anaclastic,” if we take his old term in the older etymological sense which includes the study of both reflected rays and broken rays. But unlike philosophical reflection, which aims to go back to its own sources, the reflection we are dealing with here concern rays whose only source is hypothetical… And in seeking to imitate the spontaneous movement of mythological thought, this essay, which is also both too brief and too…”

Guillermo Aranda reflecting upon Strauss while holding as  sketch pad and a set of watercolors while exploring SIngapore. June 2022.