Concept
impasto
2 writings
- the catalyst does not return True catalysis — the return of an enabler unchanged — exists only in chemistry; in meaning, self-organization, and mathematical proof, what enables a transformation is consumed by it, and naming that consumption catalysis is a necessary fiction.
- impasto thins into spire Impasto, subsidy, and spire trace a vertical axis on which material deposits lose gestural identity and are spent into direction; the spire and dome emerge as opposite responses to accumulated subsidy, producing longing and warmth respectively.