Douglas Jay Goldstein

The Body Remembers

A golden bird in Victorian engraving style
An ornate golden birdcage in Victorian engraving style
A golden bird inside an ornate cage - the thaumotrope illusion revealed

Body · Past · Physical

Presence · Now · Experience

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Twenty-two essays on what happens when designed environments write themselves into the body.

Presence is a sensorimotor contract, not a feature. The body accumulates. The body persists. There is no restore point.

Foundations
Practice
Ethics
Distribution
Consequences
1–89–1314–1819–2021–22

Four paths through the work

"Every experience writes itself into the body.
Not every inscription can be erased."