Wednesday, November 17, 2010

"matchbox songs....last day of 'miscellaneous'...




As has been the case since the inception of this series of transitional shows I am uncertain as to what will be next...at present all that I have is a title..."you can't look at yourself in the ocean"...a line from the book of Lorca's poems that I read during my morning train journeys when I first arrived in Brisbane...it may be something...at times all one needs is a title and the rest falls into place...we shall see...perhaps they will continue to be 'hesitations'...which I do not mind...eventually, either singularly or collectively they will say something...I have been reading of Joseph Cornell this week...they say that you should never meet your heros...but I would not have wanted to meet him so much as to have followed him...his bike rides through Flushing and the sojourns through Manhattan...a mind that was truly a stream of consciousness...child like in every way...there was a wonderful story of how he would often buy a new record and take it to a friends place for them to keep for a time...then he would return in a number of days even weeks to collect it.. still unopened...a way of prolonging not only the experience but the sense of expectation of the moment...in small ways I do similar things..deliberately having books wrapped in brown paper and leaving them overnight before I open them...some times the same thing will befall a new CD...thank you again to those who have taken a moment to peer into my window...someone asking about the binding of things...I am not so sure that I have worked that one out myself ...I guess it is all of the associations that are implied with such an act..but I think the connection is between the act of binding and what is presented...the doing is no less significant then the result...the viewer is hopefully aware of both elements...and apart from my time in London where I had a job binding rope around bundles of newspapers before they went out to the news stands I can't really say much more..or won't..sp

4 comments:

  1. I enjoyed your post. I even wrote down several things you said, sometimes all you need is a title. And reflected, sometimes the title is the hardest part? But sometimes as you said, with time, the work will speak. I loved the line, that the doing is no less significent than the result. Perhaps all art is the preformance?

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  2. brava...oh and I like your new title!

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  3. My aged eyes have problems reading your posts,but in sayng that it makes me do it sowly and I take more in.
    Nice to catch up with what you are doing.

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  4. i fool myself and think the language matters little, it's the work. but perhaps i'm wrong, it matters, some anyway. hesitations seems good, the ocean quote also fine. perhaps something other.

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