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Armchair Emblems, Prosthetic Mottos & Walking Definitions:

Fact Sheet

“I am on the hunt for constructions. I come into a room and find them whitely merging in a corner.” –Franz Kafka, Diaries

“In my life the furniture eats me.” –William Carlos Williams, Spring & All

EMBLEM

Invented in 1531 by a Florentine legal scholar named Andrea Alciato, the emblem is a tripartite structure composed of a motto or epigram (generally moral in theme), an icon (often referred to as the emblem’s ‘body’) and a commentary on the two in prose or poem form. Many emblems made variations on this formula.

ARMCHAIR EMBLEM

The upholstered emblem or armchair emblem incorporates only the epigram/motto and image tension of the Renaissance emblem but retains its conceptual gist and glyphic structure.

PROSTHETIC MOTTO

An aspirational embodiment or transcorporation for the body-image. “Building the muscles of mind’s legs.” Enhanced mobility via an ingested foreign body.

TRANSCORPORATION

A translation from one body to another. An ingestion or introjection.

WALKING DEFINITION

An indoor walking stick that defines constituents of the built interior as allegories of mind. A measure. A ‘getting underway’ instrument, frequently ‘left around.’

BUILT INTERIOR

An indoor pedestrian structure comprised of mobile furniture for the solicitation of thinking. An allegory of mind.

SOLICITATION

The directed rousal of thinking through upholstered didactic prompts or forms (an intelligent furniture).

FORMS

Ornaments of thought. Including: the glyphic (static—the emblem); the mnemonic (transcorporable—the prosthetic); the definitive (the Walking Definition).

FURNITURE

What is lived with. “The relation of with.” Any instrument or form housing information intended to be absorbed by accompaniment.

–THOMAS EVANS