MARIA EXCAVATION 001 · SPECIMEN 014
THE BIRTH
OF A NEW IDEA
Before an idea becomes a sentence, a decision, a ritual, a company, a war, a cure or a song, something changes.
Microscope footage presented as neuronal growth and contact.
A useful physical metaphor for learning and ideation.
Field reference. Original source and protocol still to be verified.
- 01
BEFORE
Isolated structures.
- 02
REACH
Processes extend.
- 03
CONTACT
A possible connection.
- 04
NETWORK
Structure becomes relationship.
- 05
THOUGHT
And somewhere much further up the stack, we call it an idea.
SAME EXCAVATION. DIFFERENT DEPTH.
Rituals, customs, ceremonies, social protocols.
Actions, habits, signals, responses.
Beliefs, assumptions, interpretations, decisions.
Plasticity, adaptation, stress, reward, synchronisation.
Sometimes Maria digs down.
Sometimes Maria looks through a microscope.