The Morning Line

Matthew Ritchie, the British artist who was tagged by Time Magazine as one of "100 Innovators of the Next Millennium," informed the listeners that, "If Obama becomes president, I will become a US citizen." He used the "p" word that I had been hearing so frequently from Obama advocates.

"It's very personal," he said. "Something more is at stake. People tell me, 'He's not the pragmatic choice. You're a dreamer.' But I think Obama can beat McCain. The whole world is waiting for the United States to come back."

-- The New York Art World Votes

Congratulations to Matthew Ritchie who unveiled his incredible sculpture/future/device, THE MORNING LINE at the 3rd International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Seville in Spain.

THE MORNING LINE

“Not light, but darkness visible.”

If sound is a kind of light, then perhaps light is a kind of sound. A fourteen billion year old tune played backwards to a clock made of stars, ticking at the speed of light until the end of time. Snake eyes rolled for eternity.

This project proposes a ruin from the future, a new type of structure whose function can only be inferred not just by using it but by reading it. Combining science, art, architecture, music and film into the first semasiographic building, an architectural language that directly expresses its content through its structure. A structure that is simultaneously generating itself and falling apart.

An anti-pavilion, not an enclosure, but an opening of space, a conversion of place into language.

Paradise Lost begins with the question, what happened after the beginning of time? It ends with the answer in a description of a future past, the world flooded under a great deluge.