MIT 4.396—Special Problems in Visual Arts
     The Distribution of Meaning, 2005
     Professor: Allan McCollum


 
Spiritual Grammar
 

The SPIRITUAL GRAMMAR Project
by Pablo Wenceslao

The Spiritual Grammar project consisted of mass producing three different shapes and distributing them to the public. The three different shapes were a square, circle and triangle. The different symbols were not intended to have connotation to a specific religion but function as physical placeholders for the communal, the threshold, and the divine. Each piece either had a hole or a key-like cut out. This was so that they could link together and create the needed physical connection. The circle could connect to both the square and the triangle acting as the threshold between these two shapes. The square and the triangle could not link, thus representing the separation between the communal (public) and the divine. Over 400 acrylic pieces were cut on a laser cutter.

Read the full final report on the project HERE

(Some personal observations on the project: here)

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