The leap from the immateriality of thought to the reality of object is always mediated by some sort of translation. Source is never the same as resulting object and object can become a new source, but original object is always a simulacrum of original thought. So in this way, at the root of the process of making we have: idea ---> object (idea-arrow-object), and often we also have object ---> object (object-arrow-object). In a general sense, we can say source ---> object (source-arrow-object), and then to simplify it, S ---> O.
Given S ---> O, we are presented with two general possibilities for S: S = brain or S = object. Each variable of S presents its own sense of translation, its own characteristics of removal from the source. If S = brain, the translation (arrow) to O involves the severest degree of removal from source/truth, since we are moving from the immaterial to the material. In contrast, if S = object, we have the possibility of a lesser degree of removal, since in Oa ---> Ob the resultant Ob can contain physical elements of Oa (and so we can have as resultants, Ob or Oa+b). Whereas when S = brain, the resultant O can never contain parts of S, because S in that instance is immaterial.
What you see here will be a series of removes of the O ---> O sort. We have: Osource painting ---> Omodel ---> Odrawing ---> Ocollage ---> Osoundscape ---> Ocelluloid ---> Ofilm. The formation of each stage will be one remove from the source, and may or may not carry with it bits from the previous stage.
Enjoy.
Jimmy Luu
Fall 2004