<< Ever limiting reality

We are creatures forever seeking meaning. That derive and give meaning to concrete and undeniable realities.

Definitive, palpable, all-encompassing facts that we cannot get away from.

The question for us becomes not what we make of reality but were should the line be stricken down when it comes to our interpretation of it? 

Is our domain over the material world really infinite?

My experience as an architect says that this is not the case. In fact, architecture and its practitioners walk along thin line between subjective meaning and material reality.

We inhabit this apparently limited space where we try to express ideas and make statements out of light and shadow but where we usually are constrained by external and clearly defined forces such as material resistances or fundamental gravity.

 This space, though limited, has not been a true impediment for us not to achieve wonders that truly inspire and awe. It is precisely the acknowledgment of these borders that despite sounding confining brings out the greatest freedom of all.

Human life is not particularly different in this aspect, this rather limited time that we share on earth is by no means supposed to continue indefinitely. We have expanded the borders of our consciousness in a vain hope of reshaping the surrounding reality. And we have created only pale shadows, corrupted, incomplete representations of what we are actually incapable of creating.

There is not a problem in accepting the limited capacities that we have in the face of reality, it’s but a matter of accepting that in this existential plane it is a it is.

I would dare to state that we as a society are quite inevitably walking towards a rude awakening; dutifully earned by our denial of things that just are and are beyond our control. 

It’s pretty much like building a castle on the sand and thinking it can give us some sort of real protection in the face of the elements.

As much and as hard as we try however, let water come in and see it all washed away.

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