J/P collaboration

 

Colour ?

 

correspondence

 

Reciprocity.

 

Milan Letters… Colour and computer

 

Screen Saver

 

 J’s image of his computer with P’s image on J’s desk top,

P’s computer with desk top image of J’s computer with P’s image on J’s desktop…

How far can it go? How would it mean?

Can we get rid of ‘my’ and use any image/object?

 What would it be? What could object be? Disc? Circulation No object?

 

‘Screen’ idea could be useful ? monitor, painting, surface, cave wall, gallery wall etc

 

Corresponding mirrors reflect themselves endlessly…

 

 Difference with the laptop exchanges… context ? Context can change…checked tablecloth in Milan, desk office, studio, place… etc ?                  Context- Colour?

 

It could proceed using ‘our’ images somehow… but would that mean something else? Does it need to be… or must it be a constructed image at all? No object?

– Goethe? Newton discs?

 

Mirror images reflecting                             reflexion

repeated get smaller        to infinity             or number  …7 times?

 

Words

 

Anitems, Anobjects?              Anartists/(Duchamp)

 

How coherent? Literal? How far?                      Printing outcomes possible/ records?

Does it have to be coherent? What is that?

 

Correspondence

Reciprocation

Response

Reflection

Association

Extraction                                                     Summary

Traces                                                         assembly                            

Remains                                                       article/ artifact/ articulation                            

 

Record

From a record ….Can we collaborate with text/ correspondence/ call and response

GC6 17908

Green d’or

Verdegris door

 

 

 

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower

 

Drives my green rage; that blasts the roots of trees

 

Is my destroyer

 

                                                                 Dylan Thomas

 

Biographies help me sleep… now a box of library disposals

…last month or two, have read two Poes, a Melville, a Hunter Thompson… which had the beautiful Colleridge bit … Peter O’Toole auto… as a child in foster care, playing Green Man in forest away from blitz London….

 

Don’t know the original source.  Found the DT quote by coincidence yesterday, in an unlikely biography (Wired) on John Belushi by Bob Woodward… Also a rare piece of verse in the journalistic bio…. Belushi drank at the NYC bar where Dylan Thomas died (after drinking 23 whiskies?… The White Horse, 11^th and Hudson).

 

 …but its great in relation GC ideas…

Here creative lifeforce is linked to green like chlorophyll to light, but an illumination which is also the exterminating flame… no?

(Pathological obverse?)

 

 A strange way to look at colour? About LIGHT, but a different approach

What we have been doing with this text…like Russell’s essay ?... is about words too.

 Ideas to do with some visual experience( to come?)

 

Whats it made of?…Light-eating lead… light and wax ?... but what made it happen is something else… the process without a specific object…the procedure generates becomings/possibilities?

 

Visual, textual, practical research prompted by wordplay and association?

 

UBU, king of ****

 

Green candle title… UNgivens – green, light, number?

 

In some sense parameters are absolutely ambiguous…mysterious?

Something elusive (but not evasive?)

 

From an inexplicable… wordless place, colour can be as strange as Wittgenstein says

but if one wanted to take a literal path… it can suggest a very restricted spectrum… a single colour and a single illuminating (or not?) object made of wax.

 

Call and Response being an unlimited, satisfying and productive process….productive for its own sake?

 

The possibility remains of everything except the Green Candle…the absence…

 I think of Gertrude Stein’s Yellow Vase (?) cubist poem…attempting to define an object in space, and avoiding the words vase and yellow.

 

This Collaboration

I like the feeling of freedom from individual responsibility…mutual…but not presumptive…a different kind of creative method… surrendering some kind of authority?