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We perceive.
When what we perceive is taken for true, reality, as it appears to us, becomes for us reality itself;
The form becomes the object in its totality.
68 .jpeg images digitally stacked and turned into .mp4 file
68 .jpeg images turned into .obj + .mtl files, these are compiled in software to represent a textured 3D model placed in a digital environment
.obj file shown as a point cloud in a digital environment.
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.obj point cloud coordinates translated into a 275-page, A3 format book containing all 450.000 points
.obj point cloud points translated into audio trough a modular synthesizer
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the plant, described as objectively possible in words, translated into 102 languages, bundled into a book
The plant is organic, it moves, grows, and breathes.
It never stands still, it is not an object.
The plant is alive.
We however, perceive it as a static object.
We do not see the plant moving or growing or breathing.
When the plant is translated, the form is used as if it were the essence of the subject.
For us, the form is the plant itself.
This is how we perceive in the larger sense.
The world as how it appears to us, is reality for us: this is "real".
In reality, it is raw information, like reflected light, captured by our eye.
Then translated according to our frame of reference and projected as "reality".
The plant, which comes to life, breathes, grows, and also dies again is reduced to a static object.
As a direct extension of the human body, our technology does have the ability to perceive a more objective world.
Our technology converts this objective translation into information understandable to them. It creates files and images that represent an objective view but are not within our frame of reference. Therefore, we cannot translate this information into what it stands for.
An example is the 3D scanner, which converts an object to a file of hundreds of thousands of points with XYZ coordinates and in this way creates in itself a file that converts this objective reality (based on shape) to an objective replica of it.
Translating this file into a form recognizable to us requires an action, a translation.
The raw objectivation consists of 450,000 points, each with its own XYZ coordinates; we, however, simply see a plant.