Cut Through
Cut once, along the plane that reveals most.
Formerly Section
Matta-Clark: a house chainsawed down the middle.
Seen in Gordon Matta-Clark, Splitting, Englewood NJ, 1974
Try it on your work
Cut, open, or split one thing straight through (an object, a stack, an archive) and study the exposed face rather than the outside. Stop when you can name three things the surface never showed.
Take one day of your project and write everything that happened in a single hour of it, at every level you can reach, until the hour is exhausted. One hour, fully sectioned, beats a summary of the month.
Freeze your project at one instant and record the state of every part at that moment: not its history, its state. One line per part. Contradictions between lines are the finding.
How it has been used
Cut through the thing to show its inside: the architect's section drawing, the geologist's core, the split geode. One clean plane through everything at once. The move forces a single cut: you don't get to choose a flattering angle per part; the same plane exposes them all.
Where it leads
Grouped under Pull the parts apart