church of solitude

I was supposed to meet a friend at the MoMa but we couldn't find each other. So I just wandered around for a while until I got a call from her later.

In the architecture and industrial design section, this was what struck me:





The Church of Solitude project, by Gaetano Pesce. I guess it was a desire to be away from all the masses in NY during the 70's. I don't think it was ever built, just drawn and planned. I like the city better when I can see the boundary between what's organic and what's man-made. I think that's why I like this. That's also why I like construction sites.

Lately thinking about how I never had a good sense of space, naturally, when I was younger. I guess space invaders, or in the other extreme, hermits, are people who don't get "space." Was always disoriented and stuck in my head, more drawn to words, rhythms, and music. So people who brought hints of the other side were totally mystical to me. Cool thing about making films is you can come into  it from different sides. People who are more visual learn to appreciate words or stories, and people who are stuck in words start paying attention to space.

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