Hamer Dodds

Phylum: Perspective and Infinity

Class: Greenland

Genus: Mundane var. comfit

Visualisation of science is a knotty problem. Tufte has been foremost in untying many of these knots. His ideas on visual confections are relevant to the issues of visualising the science of research stations and field work. In Greenland the perspective of infinity was faced head on. The infinite here was defined by an inability to understand the enormity of the landscape. It was my personal infinity.

A transductionl lens_, examining the ideas of structural intuitions and visual confections in the context of current environmental research is presented here. Complex ideas are separated in time and space. As Tufte said “…by virtue of the architecture of their arguments, confections make reading and seeing and thinking identical.”

To accept the idea of infinity is to accept nothing is original. That should put my work into perspective.