The Line is Born - 5th February 2012

Stylised Photography of Movement of three spotlights in space (C) Parvaneh Farid

Once upon a time there was a dote without any dimension called: (B)

And there was nothing called: (A)

Nothingness (A) must have shrunk its edges so something could find space within it. Hence we could say nothingness (A) existed before something (B) comes to existence, and if nothingness (A) did not provide space or did not give away something (B) would not have any room to come to be. Therefore we can say that nothingness (A) existed before something (B).

Nothingness must have been everywhere, apart from where something established its territory. Something which is everywhere cannot have dimension, hence something (B) within a space which has no dimension cannot have any identity or dimension itself. Therefore we can say phenomenon (B) did not have any identities.

Movements –something; phenomenon (B) could not possibly move because there was nothing which it could change its position or move against it. Phenomenon (B) could be floating within the space and yet remains stationary. Because there was no up or down, right or left towards which it could have moved.

Therefore the phenomenon (B) was stationary until something else; phenomenon (C) was born, which also had no dimension.

Now phenomenon (B) could change position or move against phenomenon (C). The trace of this movement could be called: the Line. This movement however, could be only happen in a straight line. Because (C) had no dimensions at all, (B) could only distance itself from it or get closer to it in a straight line. (B) could not move towards left nor right of (C), simply because (C) did not have any dimension, and nothing else existed there apart from them two.

Because (B) had no dimension, the line / trace of this movement, therefore, could only obtain one dimension. This single dimension could be the only identification (B) and (C) have at this point. As from that minute which the second phenomenon was born, the essence of the African mystic (UBUNTO = I am because you are) seems to begin to prove itself right.

Then the phenomenon (D) was born, and phenomenon (B) could now move begins two other phenomena, this time in a straight line or zigzag manner. Simply becomes phenomenon (D) could make left or right meaningful to a phenomenon B against phenomenon C.

After the birth of a phenomenon (E) moving up and down became meaningful to phenomenon (B), hence (B) could move against phenomenon C, D and E in a spiral form.

The future topics of my understanding are:

Time

Place

Speed

Memory