Tractatus Logico-Deconstructio
(talking with Wittgenstein), 2022/24
'Talking with Wittgenstein’ emerged from an imagined conversation with Ludwig Wittgenstein and took place during the process of type copying and inhabiting his philosophical project ‘Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus’; this became what I now understand to be an ‘umbrella project’.
Behind the conceptual mask of ‘Tractatus Logico-Deconstructio’ lie a number of hidden messages oscillating between materials, language and technology;
The Protecting Veil
(talking with Wittgenstein, thinking of Tavener), 2022/24
51g Iron Oxide (the mineral veil), translates as the weight of Wittgenstein's Soul).
‘The Protecting Veil’ became a frame of reference to the realms of belief in non-belief, and immaculate misconception; I have thrown a spanner in the works by introducing 'The Music of Silence' by John Tavener as his orthodox views are obviously at odds with Wittgenstein.
Covered in iron oxide the mineral veil makes it impossible to read the full text of ‘Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus’.
"The rest is silence" are Hamlet's last words and we wonder how this last frame sits with Wittgenstein's - "What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence."
His Masters Voice
(talking with Wittgenstein, a work in progress).
H.M.V. considers the hexadecimal alphabet as musical notation, inferring that each of the first six signs (a,b,c,d,e,f) stand for a musical note, the numerals (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0) a system of metronomic timing.
If I apply this idea to ‘Tractatus Logico-Deconstructio’, I would be able to listen to the soundtrack of one whilst looking/interpreting the other, because Wittgenstein’s ‘law of projection’ tells us that the internal relations depicting the language of gramophone records, musical ideas, musical notation, and sound waves, may be projected/translated one to another despite being constructed in entirely different ways.