Concept
spire
3 writings
- the spire is what bricolage found Bricolage — assembly from available accidents, not prior design — is the missing link between broken frames and new ones; the spire's apparent inevitability is emergent direction, and an oracle's authority is craft, not prophecy.
- 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.
- the spire and the caricature Spires, caricatures, and social taboos share a common structure — a single dimension pressed to an apex that organizes everything below it while remaining unlivable, with vertigo marking the moment the orbit around that concealed center fails.