The careful observer will note that the reddish rock formations that appear in the "Dawn of Man" sequence in 2001: A Space Odyssey foreshadow the "djinn" chairs designed by Olivier Mourgue in 1965 that appear in the space station lobby in the following sequence. The spinning femur bone which prefigures the satellite 4 million years later reassures us that such large spans of time can be generalized very simply, to comic or tragic effect. The djinn chairs surely seem to play off the idea of rock formations and geology. They are highly modern, but modernity is little more than a limited, poor representation of actual nature. In other words, nature is always ahead and behind.
No comments:
Post a Comment