Some say “The devil is in the details,” meaning solutions break down when you examine them closely enough. Some say “God is in the details,” meaning opportunities for discovery and creativity come from digging into the details... if you search deep enough, then you will be able to discover an aspect of perfection.
http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2008/03/30/god-is-in-the-details/
I came about this route as I was thinking about the linkage between professions, between 'subjects' or categories all part of the same world. As my previous studies over some a few architects such as Gaudi, Kisho Kurokawa and Wright, I realised they can't create architecture without their substance and inspiration from categories OUTSIDE of architecture. Be it spiritual to realism, their architecture always link more into the world for some 'higher value'.
Taking Kurokawa as an example as he seems most fitting, his philosophy of metabolism:symbiosis attempts to overrule or rather synchronize with the pattern of nature - building in purposeful harmony. With that being said, the philosophy links up history and future, human and art, nature and machines, etc etc etc, which brought me to realise, it's that simple building links - just the way things are perceived.
Our actions are cultivated through instincts - served from our human nature. Thus whatever we do, nature resides in our actions. Put into context, all products or service created by humans reflect each other in more ways that we imagine. Supply and demand, Roof for shelter, School for teaching, Medicine for curing, Elimination for mistakes. These things all come from the equation of natural instincts where looked closely, echo each other piece by piece - this is commonly extracted through our metaphors & similes. "autonomous teams like machines, light like hope to life. structures like trees". Our creations are no more unique than the way we see it; the term "everything's done before" is scarily true (at least for me) because all these links lead me to believe, WE HAVE BEEN DONE BEFORE. Creations are only a symptom of what we are. So it doesn’t quite matter if we're doing economics, arts, engineering or architecture, we resonate together synchronously as we all have a common goal - set by nature and our interpretation of nature, Survival and Life, respectively.
I wonder now if it's truly God who's in these details, or is it only Human in nature's system, like you and me. And to know that we humans have step foot on almost every corner of this earth, make an impact and decision for every rock, I'd believe our existence has burned into the flesh of every-thing possible. Simply put, while WE dominate the world we live in, and echo each other ever so flawlessly; our byproducts of reactions-to-life all come under one powerful entity made up of a race which could be crowned for no-body else but us: Humans. Our doings are Perfect in its apparent creation.
hence, I would like to rephrase today’s topic expression as:
We are perfect in the course of nature’s system
thus,
We are in the details.
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