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January 6, 2004

I'm painting and cleaning the electronic cottage this week before it goes back on the rental market. I'm living in the world of instrumental rationality of the market where reason is pure calculation, as are the signs (words) of the language we use in order to exchange money for renting.

My heart is elsewhere:

Grace M. Ballentine, Up from the Sea, ca. 1940

Oh for some quiet magic moments at the beach.

The above photographic image is not a sign used for calculation. It is something other than a sign of instrumental rationality.

It is also something more than a simple visual similarity between a photograph and sunlight sand dunes.

As an image it opens up the possibility of approaching the world in a different way to that of instrumental reason: an opening up to concrete and specific individual experience that is excluded by the identity of mapping reality through the unambiguous and abstract concepts of instrumental reason.

| Posted by Gary Sauer-Thompson at 5:23 PM | Permalink

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Beautiful photo - makes me want to go straight to the beach with my dog, who left his heart in Apoolo Bay I think.

Posted by: boynton | January 6, 2004 8:43 PM

My two standard poodles play wild mad chasy games around and through the sand dunes.

The relation between image and object(sand dune) is not one that is just based on rational knowledge (it is about play); and it is goes beyond the opposition involved in the subject using instrumental reason to tame a recalcitrant nature.

Posted by: Gary Sauer-Thompson | January 6, 2004 9:11 PM

What a wonderful photograph! Thanks Gary! Ah, Apollo Bay, what wonderful places can be found along the west coast of Victoria!

Posted by: PunkClown | January 6, 2004 9:19 PM

apollo bay sure beats apoolo bay anyway - whoops, must have been channelling your poodles, there Gary!

Posted by: boynton | January 6, 2004 10:21 PM

You painted the cottage last year Gary! You are a very fastidious landlord I must say...

Posted by: Scott | January 7, 2004 12:19 AM

oh yes... Apollo Bay.. now overwhelmed by a small tidal wave of land values so the locals can't afford to stay and rental places have disappeared unless you want a weekender... and the new houses have spa baths which the locals say is ruining the fragile water supply..

For sand dunes you really need to go further to Johanna..

all sooooo beautiful.

Posted by: David Tiley | January 10, 2004 7:51 PM