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Zeno’s paradoxes — the arrow paradox:

"If everything when it occupies an equal space is at rest, and if that which is in locomotion is always occupying such a space at any moment, the flying arrow is therefore motionless." — Arisotle

In the arrow paradox, Zeno asks us to imagine an arrow in flight. He then asks us to divide up time into a series of indivisible nows or moments. At any given moment if we look at the arrow it has an exact location so it is not moving. Yet movement has to happen in the present; it can’t be that there’s no movement in the present yet movement in the past or future. So throughout all time, the arrow is at rest. Thus motion cannot happen. (Wikipedia)

Ideas:

• Column of wood cut and created with the prinicple of halfs. Shape could be formed in multiple methods, however there will be a point in which the material would not be usable (at such a small level).
• Video art piece documenting the cutting of wood into halfs.
• Length of wood with increments documenting the halfs, aimed at a point.

Comments from brainstorming critique:

• If video documentation, show a product from the form, i.e. this video.
• Try to incorporate a metaphor into the piece instead of just illustrating a philosophical theorem.
• Play with shape, in that not just a straight columnm, but expanding bases.

Branching Ideas:

• incoporate a second meaning to the piece or work on elements that is uses, such as time and space — introduction of "now", "past", "present"
• mix the video and progression together somehow
• introduce a counterpoint to the piece, i.e. some of the never-proven solutions to the paradoxes, such as the relativity of the "now"