Film - Lana Wachowski, Tom Tykwer and Andy Wachowski: Cloud Atlas

Zachry: Who tripped the Fall, if not Old Georgie?

Meronym: True-true? The Old Uns.

Zachry: That's just a rope o'smoke. Old Uns got the Smart. They mastered sick and seeds, they make miracles and fly across the sky.

Meronym: True. All true. But they got somethin' else. A hunger in their hearts, a hunger that's stronger than all their Smart.

Zachry: Hunger? For what?

Meronym: A hunger for more.

Isaac Sachs: Belief, like fear or love, is a force to be understood as we understand the Theory of Relativity and Principles of Uncertainty: phenomenon that determine the course of our lives. Yesterday, my life was headed in one direction. Today, it is headed in another. Yesterday I believed that I would never have done what I did today. These forces that often remake time and space, that can shape and alter who we imagine ourselves to be, begin long before we are born and continue after we perish. Our lives and our choices, like quantum trajectories, are understood moment to moment. At each point of intersection, each encounter suggests a new potential direction. 

Quote - Judith Schlansky: An Atlas of Remote Islands

Delving into the nature of juxtaposing spaces and there effects upon our mental cognition, comparisons can be drawn between that of a small island. These spaces distance away from the everyday, and a sense of exploration and discovery emerges. A patchwork of half remembered fictions allows our imaginations to create that story that thus consumes us.

Photography - El Lissitzsky: Runner In The City

El Lissizsky's Runner In The City was one of the first examples of effects and distortions being applied purposely to a photographic image. The image, a runner in a race has been layered on top of an image of a city (New York) to create contrast of ideals. The artists goal was to allow the viewer perspective upon the way we live our lives, and suggest what we should aspire for. The runner represents the utopian idealistic, whilst the city with it's neon lights and capitalist nature represents the what should be repelled. My main focus on this art is the way it creates it's message, once again using juxtaposing elements to create a thought process regarding our culture.

Architecture - Witherford Waston Mann: Astley Castle c.2013

The Astley family had the castle built in Nuneaton, North Warwickshire in the 12th Century. The development is seated sensitively within the ruins allowing visitors to experience the history in a living context. Communal spaces have been placed upstairs to allow for better visibility with the ruins on a longer time span in the day.

The idea creates a palimpsestic living arrangement where the history can be read in the environment and lost stories imagined.

Source: http://ribastirlingprize.architecture.com/riba-stirling-shortlist-2013-astley-castle-warwickshire/

Photography/Installation - Noemie Goudal: Haven Her Body Was c.2012

Noemie Goudal's photography in 'Haven Her Body Was' creates narrative and story-telling by juxtaposing the artificial, with that of the natural. When we encounter oppositional meanings within a space, it creates a thought process where we are forced to exam the context behind each, awakening our senses and memories. In the urban environment we rarely stop to think, and dwell upon the reasons and history behind each action we take and what we consider to be the accepted. The stories creep through like a patchwork of broken and blurred memories that seems to take hold of us all and completely for these seconds that we let it, and we become apart of that space. Before it is dismissed, we move on, and the feeling fades.

I find this motion captivating, moments where we consider what is real, and what we choose to dream.

Combat

Iceberg

Reservoir

Stereo-plates

Trail

Warren

Well

Source: http://www.noemiegoudal.com