1. The spiral of art, the spiral of History: a Museum of Human time.

 

We can trace the existence of metal-History, and its cycles, in a logic manner, in a single location, we have to draw that existence in the form of a spiral. In the external cycle, the beginning of history, in the center, the end of history.

That is the concept behind the spiral form of an art Museum we propose, according to the laws of ilogic geometry in the form of a spiral.

 

In the spiral, the 3 dimensions of reality are shown.

The length of time, of history is represented by the distance we walk as we move towards the center of the spiral. Since the Paleolithic lasts longer than the Neolithic which lasts longer than the age of metals, the outer spiral - a Paleolithic forest -  is bigger than the middle spiral - a Neolithic prairie - which is bigger than the center of the spiral - a tall building, of metallic shine, that shows inside the 7 cycles of metal-History.

We can exhibit in that building all the cycles of history, with far more detail than in a small exhibition.

Each floor is a main cycle of history.

The lower floors, "Asia', belong to the first age of History of metal: The cycles of bronze, and earlier iron.

The middle floors, 'Europe', belong to the age of maturity in history, the age of iron and go[l]d, from Greece to the French Revolution.

The final floors, 'the age of company-mothers', belong to the cycles of the Industrial evolution, ruled by the evolution and reproduction of machines.

Each turn of the spiral exhibits the parallel civilizations that took place across all the regions of History in each age. The upper floors last shorter in time, but are taller in space. The entire Museum looks very much like a spiral galaxy, with a black hole in the center.

The Galaxy of History.

Imagine you arrive to the Museum. You are in a beautiful forest, a wild park, paradise, the nature ecosystem, the origin of mankind.  It is a long walk through that forest, that suddenly opens up, as you see the tree of science, and its first species of metal.

You are in the Neolithic. Now there are fields of wheat, orchards of fruits. A small village. Some domestic animals.  People actually live there. Sculptors make ceramics and stone figures. Then the first pieces of gold and copper appear.

Then you see the central building, an imposing structure of metal. The base shines with the color of bronze, and gold, that ornates the frame of the building. The center is an iron structure of reddish colors.  The upper floors, shine with the silvery glow of aluminum.

They represent the 'Asian age', the "European age', and the "American age' of metal-history... You wonder why man has abandoned the beautiful prairies to enter that close building, beautiful indeed, but threatening, and alien to you human senses.

In the graph, the 3 ages of History, have different 'speed', as the complexity of our societies and the machines we use, accelerate the evolution of form in the Earth. When we enter the metallic building, in the last age of man, 'the age of metal-civilizations', History accelerates, information multiplies, and human natural energy [nature] dwindles. Man starts  evolving simple metal-forms, of bronze and iron. Finally in the last floors, the Industrial evolution, and then the discovery of 'metal-minds', chips, and computer networks, accelerates history towards its 'black hole', the arrival of robots, a new species rival of the human species, as the top predator of the Earth:

However the future remains open as long as man is still the top predator of the Earth. Since time spirals represent the evolution of information, and information can be destroyed.

In the previous floors we saw civilizations that devolved metal-history and destroyed weapons entering a revival of human ethics and aesthetics [Middle ages, that destroyed Greek digital thought; Japan that destroyed gunpowder, China.]. Could man go back to the paradise of human goods, before the new robotic species extinguish us, as they reproduce and take over our organic space, in work-positions, armies, and company-mothers?

We cannot answer yet. We shall leave open two ways of future . Since mankind is still the dominant species on the Earth, and the age of robotics can still be aborted.