Comments on: automotive archaeology and the physiognomy of a car http://www.mshanks.com/2012/10/08/automotive-archaeology-and-the-physiognomy-of-a-car/ all things archaeological Tue, 02 Apr 2013 14:56:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Connie Svabo http://www.mshanks.com/2012/10/08/automotive-archaeology-and-the-physiognomy-of-a-car/#comment-4054 Connie Svabo Fri, 16 Nov 2012 19:49:31 +0000 http://www.mshanks.com/?p=4621#comment-4054 I am circling around this theme of life-lessness due to restoration also – in a project which is about a wonderful ruin from World War 1. The walls are a fascinating texture; weary crinkles of time, and it pains me to think of them white, utterly restored, closed. No gaps, no fissures which the imagination can crawl into and travel.
And I come to think of the folded and pleated time which Michel Serres writes of, and that perhaps decay is a time-wrinkle; it is a temporal mode of trans-portation which is much more sensuously convincing than the closed, sterile, restored object.
I have recently become aware of Umberto Eco’s “the open work” and think that this may also be a way of accounting for the allure of decay; it is open. For imagination, transportation.

]]> By: Bill Kimberlin http://www.mshanks.com/2012/10/08/automotive-archaeology-and-the-physiognomy-of-a-car/#comment-3844 Bill Kimberlin Tue, 06 Nov 2012 02:32:45 +0000 http://www.mshanks.com/?p=4621#comment-3844 Good lord, I have been thinking about this stuff for 40 years. I’m on the advisory board of The Stone Age Institute (study of early man) you might want to know about them. You can find their website with Google.

I was a Lucasfilm film maker for 20 years. Run a hot rod site on Facebook with 82,000 members.

Collect antique electric trains (original, no restored ones).

Your comments are well considered.

bill

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