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why should transience be personified?
because I feel personally attached to it?
because I see a human being as transient, thus it should look like one?]
because if it was a person, the viewer could recognize aspects of themselves?

this is transient

and this is transient

source: unknown

to get rid of the chaotic
the skipping from one topic to another
there should be a

focus

how to make a character of the fear of transience.
the fear that you and the world around you will decay,
and you are interfering to delay it,
hoping to make it stop.

layers

I see transience as

melting

flooding away

a haze

Gavin Worth

Unknown

source: unknown

Matthieu Borrel

again. trying to personify this feeling, this happening, this phenomena, this form of evanescence

Unknown

Lui Bolin - The invisible man

I try keeping on preserving myself

via an anti-wrinkle cream

via brushing
my teeth

via doctor appointments

but also via

photographs

written/recorded text

traditions and culture

this preserving of the self gives me the feeling that transience can be postponed.
but can it be postponed? aren't I decaying since the day I have been born?

the photograph will be less visible or lost over time, on a dump yard where no one will see it.
'to be is to be perceived' by Berkley (2013); so I will no longer be if I'm not seen. Vanished.

Berndaut Smilde

Why am I trying to make this word, this abstract thing, a human figure?

this cloud will be gone in a few seconds or in hours, but it will be gone.
there will also be a new cloud, in the same shape.
but is this the same cloud?
is this cloud you saw not already transient?

Anthropomorphism:

is attributing human characteristics to a non-human entity (n.d.).

Papineau, D. (2013). Consciousness: a graphic guide. London, England: Icon.

Antrhopomorphism. (n.d.). In Lexico. Retrieved from https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/anthropomorphism

giving it a face,
feelings,
character,
a voice

anthropomorphism is well known in, for instance, Disney films, where a teapot gets a face, a voice and emotions in the Beauty and the Beast.

Disney Wiki

https://www.ebay.com/itm/114211280960?ul_noapp=true

Keith Roach

Other examples of anthropomorphism

Unkown

But, there is something else as well:

personhood

transparant

'the state or fact of being a person.'

'the state or fact of being an individual or having human characteristics and feelings:
'a harsh prison system that deprives prisoners of their personhood.''

Personhood. (z.d.). In Dictionary. Retrieved from https://www.dictionary.com/browse/personhood

According to Lugio (2019), this river is sick and needs to be saved. This could be done by getting rights, like a human. This river got a form personhood.

I want to emphasize that: to be saved it needed personhood. It needed to be perceived as a human.

Saving the Whanganui: can personhood rescue a river? (2019, 13 december). Retrieved on June 4, 2020, from https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/30/saving-the-whanganui-can-personhood-rescue-a-river

so,

if there is anthropomorphism and personhood, there is also the equalivant relevant to making humans an object:

objectification

'to present as an object, especially of sight, touch, or other physical sense; make objective; externalize.'

I hear this term often in the context that a person is sexualized and there is no notion of their feelings or their human being inside.

www.thefashionlaw.com

note

This term is being discussed to see the other side of the spectrum.

Now coming back to transience.

In my mind transience is something scary and unbelievably fascinating.

A concept so abstract in its word and yet so personal and tangible in its utterance.

< this is a simple sketch, showing my idea how to portray my own fear of transience on to something seen as an object.

In philosophy, one formulation is that an object is something being watched, while the subject is the observer.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/object/

In my mind, I am still trying to conceive a human being of this concept of transience.

So, this needs to be shaken off.

During these three weeks, I constantly had this visual in my mind of transparent paper, where a human in the first case, which now would be an object, would become less and less visible while flipping the pages.

This image inspired me the most in this scenario >

The translucence in this image gives me the feeling of fading away over time, especially with the object portrayed: plants.

In my previous research, the term 'vanitas' was coined, where the death is portrayed, most often by flowers. In my own empirical observation, when flowers decay, they show all the stages in a short amount of time which makes it rather interesting to use as the main subject.

But, flowers, are a well-known, common form of showing transience. Is there another object outside of fruit, vegetables and plants to embody (pun intended) this concept?

Back to the desk for some further research:

object-oriented ontology

'In other words, do things, animals, and other non-human entities experience their existence in a way that lies outside our own species-centric definition of consciousness?' (Kerr, 2016).

'As a result, OOO artworks tend to be more interested in pointing out how objects exist, act, and “live” beyond the realm of human perception, a paradox of sorts given the contrived nature of artworks.' (Kerr, 2016).

'In short, OOO (and its intertwined companion Speculative Realism) is dedicated to exploring the reality, agency, and “private lives” of nonhuman (and nonliving) entities—all of which it considers "objects"—coupled with a rejection of anthropocentric ways of thinking about and acting in the world.' (Kerr, 2016).

Kerr, D. (2016, 8 april). What Is Object-Oriented Ontology? A Quick-and-Dirty Guide to the Philosophical Movement Sweeping the Art World. Retrieved on June 5, 2020, van https://www.artspace.com/magazine/interviews_features/the_big_idea/a-guide-to-object-oriented-ontology-art-53690

Pamela Rosenkranz's Our Product (2015) at the Venice Biennale

Thus, object-oriented ontology is against the anthropomorphism, humanifying an object. It's thinking and questioning how the consciousness of an object works.

Questions arise

Still need to read in to

* How do you objectify something that can already be seen as an object; but not visible as
an object itself?
* What kind of objects are not transient? What kind of objects are? And why are they?
* What is a connection with the now, the times we are in?
* What will it communicate to the viewer?
* What is the purpose/goal of the work?

* Alien Phenomenology, or What It's Like to Be a Thing by Ian Bogost
* Conceptual Persona
* Other discourses in philosophy regarding objects and subjects.

Reflection

* Decisions need to be made more efficiently and quicker. There was a lot of jumping everywhere, to get as much information as I needed, but still not enough for specific items to continue further in a making process.
* Talking about the making process, there should have been made more. I've spent more hours on thinking, calling and talking about the subject that visualizing thoughts.
* I need to make clearer bridged between topics and visuals.
* The end goal of a project shouldn't give me the feeling of failing: I should be more open towards all the possible outcomes, even if they would fail.
* In this process I tried to stay objective, but I felt too personally attached to this topic which made me start to work on personal ideas and views in combination with the researched material.
* Even though it was a rough couple of weeks of personal circumstances, I am glad I never gave up.
* MORE MAKING! MAKING MAKING MAKING! Dare to make! Don't overthink every little thing, that it has to have this embedded meaning. This is a reminder for myself.

Some random sketches that came to my mind thinking about objects and efflux

Amanda Briggs

to be continued