Reading Complexity: Phase 2 Process

           In the updated Thing and Counterthing Diagram, I show the comparison of how each works in its own context. The Saweta Chatra Throne being a communicative tool for the king to his people acts in its uniqueness by showering authority and power, nominating itself through consequent levelled platforms accompanied with ornamentation depicting culture. The Throne made once for one particular King makes it one in the world hence placed in the Museum to comprehend the rest of Thailand's ruling history.Similarly the Barcelona Chair was made in order to accompany Mies' Barcelona Pavilion and later only made for the Spanish King and Queen to be sat on and taken a picture of. The chair followed its inspiration from the Curule Seat which has similar curvature on its legs again drawing a context where the chair is only used by political/military power generals to depict symbol of authority.

        However, the Barcelona chair loses its uniqueness and nomination value once mass manufactured. While the Throne is set in a more religious and royal setting, the chair is used in official business context. Similarly, the thoroughfare leads into a journey of Pak Klong Talat (Flower Market) where each bunch of flowers having equal potential to nomination within the context of a selling market ; where your eye pans around waiting to judge the matter of concern, here being the orchids. The video highlights the mass objects showing the potential possibility of where my eye could wander to a distance, but highlights my attention to only some due to the vibrant colors, here as a matter of fact. Part where I approach the orchids acts as pre-conceived notion of exploring things (driven by motive and curiosity) that have not been experienced before. Would the green+violet orchid have provoked me the same way, had it appeared in mass quantity? Maybe not. Maybe yes. 

        This is where Latour's text is applied, " Looking at a crowd or a troop of horses we will be less aware of the exact loss of detail because we will tend to expect that the members of this mass will be identical and read them accordingly....where we are reading  and where we are 'reading in'. ( 99 Perception of Order). Would the quality of an object being shown in mass act as a deviation to the eye, or would it still have a potential to stand out taken before that you have not witnessed it before. Here is where ornamentation, elevation, framing, orientation, symmetry would provide as catalysts in provoking beauty which causes the viewer to 'read in' rather than merely read. The further Phase would continue in playing with the viewer's order of perception based on visual hierarchy, contrast and shifting. Can we control their attention when communicating the information through a virtual space including the Throne and the Chair?