The Miseducation of Flat Visuality
by P C Smith
Right from the start, here on this page, I think the flat rectangle is a miseducation. Though it was so sought after by the archaic Greeks, and so fetishized by the archaic minimalists, and seems so utilizable—here I am typing on it!—it is a distortion of reality that we really shouldn’t take for granted. I use the flat rectangle even in constructing my bi-cylindrical constructions, but I feel a tension with it. My visuality seems more doubled-with-difference, split and curving.
P C Smith is an artist participating in the 2010 Brucennial.
