http://rudenoon.com/absalletc/archives/22 The Kingdom from another angle. Thu, 03 May 2012 05:35:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://rudenoon.com/absalletc/archives/22/comment-page-1#comment-10 Harriet Tue, 19 Feb 2008 07:12:00 +0000 http://rudenoon.com/absalletc/?p=22#comment-10 What is it about buildings that defy reason - why do we like to look at the leaning tower of Pisa? Are we drawn by the possibility that something that shouldn't just might fall down? Who would want to venture into that seemingly unsupported corner? Who did the mathematics? Since learning tango I now see two buildings in close embrace, arms extended...but all this is imagination, animation. Put a lump on a building and it has character - who wants straight up and down anymore? Flaunt the different. Show off the insane. Be the chorus girl who steps out of line by shifting a foot an in or two forward. But then again give me enough papier mache and paint and they really could look like kissing dragons.... What is it about buildings that defy reason – why do we like to look at the leaning tower of Pisa? Are we drawn by the possibility that something that shouldn’t just might fall down? Who would want to venture into that seemingly unsupported corner? Who did the mathematics? Since learning tango I now see two buildings in close embrace, arms extended…but all this is imagination, animation. Put a lump on a building and it has character – who wants straight up and down anymore? Flaunt the different. Show off the insane. Be the chorus girl who steps out of line by shifting a foot an in or two forward. But then again give me enough papier mache and paint and they really could look like kissing dragons….

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