The Oyster

<p>There is something of the seventeenth century methodology present in <em>The Oyster</em> as multiple disciplines (philosophy literature visual art biology architecture) converge within the experiences of thinking eating and diagramming. The center stage is given to a humble mollusk which becomes an object a subject a sentient consciousness and an alien will progressively and then even simultaneously. In <em>The Oyster</em> we also find a pan-psychic attitude something of a vital materialist disposition. This investigation reveals to the reader contingent details about the aesthetic origin of the universe by: a) ingesting the oyster’s interior; and b) carefully traversing its sharp outer surface and polished interior space. Here reading writing creating cooking digesting become an act of filtering. The essential glorious trait of the oyster.</p>