Aesthetics of Thinking_Space, 2014. The aim of this work is to make the aesthetic content of the thought process visible. A4-sheets, which originate from a temporary scientific work, are arranged in a wooden cube. Some of the individual sheets have handwriting on them, some have been produced digitally and contain thought processes, reflections, argumentations. They are linked by means of a seam. This illustration of a scientific creative phase on a three-dimensional space makes the totality of this piece comprehensible and discernible. What is generated here is a “thinking space”, a “space for thoughts”. Despite the optical intelligibility of the content, the work of the research only becomes apparent to the viewer when focussing more closely; it is only likely to become entirely clear to that person who comes from the same specialist area. Consequently the increasing immersion of individual scientific areas of expertise are questioned. This is a work of an autobiographical nature. The pages come from the period of research during the time of my thesis in the field of mathematics.
Space object. Spruce timber cube covered with 328 A4 sheets of paper, 220 cm x 220 cm x 220 cm.
Truly, it is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession, but the act of acquisition, not the be-ing, but the act of getting there, which grant the greatest enjoyment. When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into the darkness again. The never-satisfied man is so strange; if he has completed a structure, it is not in order to dwell in it peacefully, but in order to begin another.
C.F. Gauß to W. Bolyai
September 2nd, 1808