Peter Marius Jensen is an architect and digital artist based in the Austrian Alps.
Like the natural sciences, which have their instruments of investigation, art can provide tools to be used in a quasi-scientific sense as well. The work of the ARCHive focuses primarily on the drawing as such a tool of investigation. Images or drawings can illuminate and contextualize things in ways exceeding the capabilities of linguistics. Rather than aim to understand things by describing what is physically visible, the art of drawing can understand objects through metaphors:
“First, metaphor does not try to give us thoughts or perceptions about an object, since these would merely give us an external view of the thing question. What metaphor gives us, instead, is something like the thing in its own right: the infamous thing-in-itself”.
The work in the ARCHive takes the standpoint that before an idea or thing materializes in physical space it exists as a mental Image (or an infamous thing-in-itself). The drawing can be a means to visualize mental images as a crucial step towards materialization. It is the opinion of the ARCHive, that there exists a correlation of the diversity of images, in terms of kinds of visual expression, and the diversity of physical spaces. In the end, the diversity in the means of representation, determines the limitations of how mental images can be visually represented and shared with others. In other words, the diversity of different kinds of visual expression, represents a diversity in visual vocabulary.
The work in the ARCHive experiments with the way we represent mental images as vague representations of mental images that have not yet materialized.
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