Wednesday, February 01, 2006

GIS/Remote Sensing Shelter

I've been thinking about the GIS structure because something was bothering me about it. I think the problem was that it didn't seem to have a conceptual tie-in to the rest of the pieces, especially if it is in the vicinity of the shrine site.

My thought was maybe the structure could be a blown-up, in terms of scale, shrine or home to a digital spirit (as opposed to a digital representation of a natural spirit). Perhaps this is a spirit that embodies this human-made technology (good old animism, there's a spirit in everything). An "advanced" spirit that observes "primitive" or ancestral spirits. It literally looks down from the heavens, I wonder if this spirit would have a god complex.

Below is a Japanese shrine, probably Shinto, beneath a tree.



Maybe the structure we build could be beneath a solar panel tree. I was thinking also that perhaps only one person could enter at a time, maybe also limit the size of the structure. It would not only be a more intimate experience, it would also be easier to track the motion of one object/orb/person.

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