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| William Turner, Approach to Venice, 1843 |
I'm working on so many things at once right now, it's awfully confusing. The inside of my head looks something like this:
"Furthermore, this separation in space will facilitate the independent action of each performer, who, not constrained by the performance of a part which has been extracted from a score, has turned his mind in a direction of no matter what eventuality. There is the possibility when people are crowded together that they will act like sheep rather than nobly. That is why separation in space is spoken of as facilitating independent action on the part of each performer." -Cage / "The so-called video image is actually a shimmering energy pattern of electrons vibrating in time. The fabric of the image needs to be in a constant state of motion in order to exist, a modern embodiment of Buddha’s dictum that “all existence is change.” The electronic image is not fixed to any material base and, like our DNA, it has become a code that can circulate freely to any container that will hold it, defying death as it travels at the speed of light." -Viola / "If we consider the works in their untouched actuality and do not deceive ourselves, the result is that the works are naturally present as are things. The picture hangs on the wall like a rifle or a hat. A painting, e.g, the one by Van Gogh that represents a pair of peasant shoes, travels from one exhibition to another. Works of art are shipped like coal from the Ruhr and logs from the Black Forest. During the First World War Holderlin's hymns were packed in the soldier's knapsack together with the cleaning gear. Beethoven's quartets lie in the storerooms of the publishing houses like potatoes in a cellar." -Heidegger / How paintings smell: William Turner, Approach to Venice, 1843—Spices, unbathed faces, bolts of fog-damp wool, bundles of dew-soaked peacock tails, fish guts, indefinite wafts of hot and elaborate pastry. -Me
Which of course all leads to procrastination, like this.
