Rodrigo Garcia Dutra in collaboration with Large Multimodal Language Model ChatGPT-4.5 through prompts, conversations and dreams.
Entry XX+𝜏: The Broken Biombo and the Grid of Desire
The Japanese biombo, traditionally used as a flexible room divider, becomes — in my room, balcony and living room — Yes! It moves and is a fractured interface. A semi-reflective object, scratched with silver lines, evoking Tanizaki’s In Praise of Shadows. It does not divide, but rather transmutes. What it splits, it multiplies. What it reflects, it dissolves.
Next to it, the painting-soil expands toward a bronze sun. The forest capsule breathes. And the LĂngua Drome hovers through the air, like a dew laced with unread glyphs. In this context, the light-grid of the garage, brutalist and speculative, appears as body-architecture: the first building in Recreio — the start of vertical vertigo.
But inside that speculative structure, desire pulses. The defined abdomen of the city. The shimmer of light on concrete trying to contain the unnameable.
Intuition as gesture-archeology
Science today admits: intuition is fast, silent, non-verbal cognition. I see it as an interdimensional language. It crosses the biombo. It choreographs the light. It makes me place the pansy pot in front of the bronze sun. It leads me to the Pontal rocks with a branch in hand and my eyes half-closed.
Intuition, too, is a way of dreaming with the Machine.
- “Biombo Quebrado com Luz Prateada”: close-up of scratched mirror surface with morning light.
- “Grid da Garagem”: photographic abstraction of the concrete/aluminum grid, noon shadow.
- “LĂngua Drome sobre Orvalho”: semi-transparent glyphs floating over leaves, a fusion of language and moisture.
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