2: Initial Study for Consecutive Phases

The early emergence of phases two (2) and three (3). Partners to Phase one (1).

Phase two (2): A house for re-forming self.

Phase three (3): A house for a recorder.

Four (4) Total: for recording through material,
through language,
through the senses,
through cognition before constructing the wall.

Too tired to write for now, more later.

1: A House for the Invention of Eleven Minutes (Or The Detachment of Two Bodies)

The Time-Giver occupies phase one (1) of the structure.

Two shipping containers sit on the water's edge with a hollowed centre. There is one door into the house, there are no windows. Access to the external exists on the second level of the house through the form of an airlock. The Time-Giver maintains control over the interior door while the Administrator controls the exterior door.

(Suspicions were raised recently as the administrator collected a pair of tan trousers inside the airlock where darker wool pants had previously made their way to the wash.)

Gravity in association with the weight of the time-giver's body becomes the gravitational reference. Isolated from contact with the external world, he uses this reference to generate an invented orbit within his house. The time-giver's sleeping body becomes the vehicle for passage between the first and second level of the home as his bed - attached through to a system of weights and counter-weights external to the structure - moves vertically with the weight of his body.

On the first level the Time-Giver prepares the body for burial, which is deposited anonymously by the Administrator into the airlock, over the course of an internal week (seven days, one hour and seven minutes on average).

On the lower level is the time-giver's only access to natural light through the form of a pinhole periscope. The undertaker inspects the passage of days with a microscope. Through this pinhole he maintains the formation of the external world as object and human body as generator of time and space as he works for seven internal days to detach social networks associated with the deceased.

Separated from the passage of light and dark the Time-Giver’s body invents his own rhythm operating on an average of twenty-four hours and eleven minutes and facilitates his slow separation from the external world as the two orbits (the gravity of the earth and the gravity of his body) slowly detach themselves.

(“More-or-less independent circadian rhythms are found in many organs and cells in the body outside the SCN "master clock." These clocks, called peripheral oscillators, are found in esophagus, lung, liver, pancreas, spleen and thymus. There is some evidence the olfactory bulb and prostate may also experience oscillations when cultured, suggesting these structures may also be weak oscillators.”)

This house for two detached bodies is observed by the occupants of phase two (2) and three (3) to follow.