Scroll Mapping

The conceptual investigation and the material strategy of each scroll were separated and considered independent parts in order to conduct a comparative analysis of both elements in the five scrolls.  The extracted conceptual matter was then
reduced to the form of statements in an attempts to reveal the underlying inner most logic.  Parallels were identified as well as incongruencies as the potential elements for a collective investigation. Through the suspension of meaning within
the analysis of the material strategy, basic techniques are able to be classified into families based solely on their physical operations.    After the breakdown and classification of both the material logic and the conceptual driving force behind
each individual investigation, common denominators are identified as the potential qualifiers and techniques for a synthesized conceptual investigation to be reintroduced via a more complex material strategy.

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phase 2: sarcophagus cartography

Abstraction today is no longer that of the map, the double, the mirror or the concept. Simulation is no longer that of a territory, a referential being or substance. It is the generation of models of a real without origin or reality: a hyperreal. The territory no longer precedes the map, nor survives it. Henceforth, it is the map that precedes the territory — PRECESSION OF SIMULACRA — it is the map that engenders the territory and if we were to revive the fable today, it would be the territory whose shreds are slowly rotting across the map. It is the real, and not the map, whose vestiges subsist here and there, in the deserts which are no longer those of the Empire but our own: The desert of the real itself.

Jean Baudrillard, “The Precession of Simulacra”

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