Theory of the Flight of the Fly

                                    The flight of the fly: A theory on multiperspective  

                                 

The most common and most tolerated insect, but sometimes very hated, is the fly. Poor thing, I had an epiphany where I sensed that flies fall in love with us because they are attracted to our putrid smell, which they sense; they sense our slight daily death. Anyway, lying down with nothing to do, I started to observe the places where a fly would settle. If it flew where my feet were, it had the same perspective as me, but if it went to the ceiling -it would settle there disregarding gravitational laws- the ceiling would become its floor and the floor its ceiling, while the surrounding walls would remain the same but upside down. However, if it flew to the north wall, it became its floor and the south wall its ceiling, and the floor of the room, along with the ceiling and the east and west walls, would become its four surrounding walls. This modification continued in various ways wherever it flew—the floor, the ceiling, and the surrounding four walls. The objects of the room all of a sudden were shifting forms every time the fly landed on one of the six sides of my room. So the fly basically had a multiperspective of the inside or outside of the cube, the six planar sides of my room. In this sense, the margin of my perception on spatial orientation expanded, becoming relative. Imagine the ecstasy I felt upon seeing Escher's litograph Relativity for the first time. I inmmedatey started rotating it for an expanded point of view. These experiences began to take me out of conventional spatial references in which I moved and by 2016 I began to envision that the drawings, the unilinear designs with which I started my space dimensional exploration, could be viewed from various positions. I began to rotate the paper where the drawing desisgns were impressed, and voilà, the idea of rotating the paper to perceive more than one side of things -thanks to the fly’s flight and the indefiniteness of its movements-was planted. 

Below the title there are two of my drawing designs that were inspired by this expanded visual experience. The one on the left is what I call an Escherian Dwelling and the one on the right is titled Cage: A Multifaced Cube. There shoud be at least eight rotations for each of these drawing designs, but I only show four which gives the viewer the chance to view the tranformation of elements in the drawing design, as it is turned. 

Nelson Suarez aka LutPar 

12/2/2024