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11.10.07

prepare yourself, for you are about to read something completely ridiculous...

i heard a story on npr today about this organization called reversible destiny lofts. these two people- artists-architects-poets Arakawa and Madeline Gins- design these architectural spaces to stimulate the mind and "complete" the position of one's soul (as in, the soul extends out beyond the vessel of the body and into the space around it) in order that the body will never die. the idea sounds a lot like existentialism.

now if this sounds totally silly, it is. but this is the premise of their work-- to "reverse" one's destiny (which would obviously be ultimate death) and to experience immortality. They have also written a book about this called Reversible Destiny: We Have Decided not to Die. Here is some of what they have written:

" 'Beginning,' 'past,' 'future,' 'I,' 'me,' and 'you' are all words that have no place in this process. They are superfluous. As if magnetized, the body, moving in a veering, unbalanced balance, loses all sense of identity, or casts the little that remains of its identity as a person, outside itself. The person who entered the cylinder on her own volition ceases now to be the initiator of her own actions."

so to make a crazy idea a little crazier, this couple builds this outrageous living spaces to help you achieve immortality, mostly popular in japan. here are a few images of what they look like:










feeling immortal yet?

posted by *g* @ 6:15 AM