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"Disembodied communication (literacy) has been re-embodied through visual mechanisms such as video monitors and film screens" (Welch, Rhetoric and Technology from Rhetoric: Concepts, Definitions and Boundaries, p767).

How are structures put together?

What are the intricate parts that make organic and mechanical processes work? In an episode of Law and Order in which a property manager is accused of murder, he compares the anatomy of a historic New York City building to the human body. The electrical wiring is likened to nerves. The concrete and wood skeleton is likened to bone. The plumbing is likened to veins and arteries. This metaphor allowed me to better understand my love for architecture and construction. Destruction and reconstruction. The cooperation of individual parts to create larger structures. Intricate and vital systems and components. The statue of David is but a hunk of marble, yet the sculpting gives a hint of life beneath its surface. The muscles and bone push the exterior to its natural limit, making visible to the imagination the natural processes within. My interest in cross-sections crosses over to my early fascination with Richard Scarry's books.

The human body has always fascinated me, both anotomically and physiologically. My favorite classes in college included Anatomy and Physiology. When I was a kid I hounded my folks to get me several models of the human body which were designed to be taken apart and put back together again. A clear plastic plate could be removed to reveal bones and organs beneath, each color coded. The organs fit neatly with one another and if put together correctly would be perfectly housed within the model's frame. This desire to take things apart and put them back together again carries over to my fascination with demolition and construction, as well as my interest in civil engineering. This demolition and subsequent construction can also be seen as a metaphor for evolution and natural selection, several relevant concepts in biology, sociology, and various philosophical theories. Perhaps this is why my folks always thought I'd become a surgeon.