Document
as documentation.
The
event becomes the document
and
then again becomes an event.
Reader
acting out the instructions
and
re-making
the
reading machine.
Document,
sheet, event, score,
instruction,
command,
guide,
archive. A continuation,
as
ephemeral
as that may be.
READ
And
so at what point do we stop and breathe?
When
you turn the page you get another set of instructions as vague and
yet as comforting as the last time, we can all see the difference.
Upon
the page of off-white you can find the furniture you need to guide
you to your seat, but perhaps that is irrelevant when a portion of
the work has been done by someone else. Experiments and notes perform
the daily tasks of the reader for the writer before they have even
begun; do we now think it all out into reading before the words come
out?
The
screen slips downwards as you scroll and you loose all sense of a
solid and tangible page. Find and print your reflection as all
suffering is soon to end and the stars should be leaving an imprint
in the soft cartridge paper on the table.
Projecting the words
on the wall and controlling your reading can cause frustration.
Skimming over the wavering black e-ink like the ephemeral solidity
that your eyes endure. They can find their own way through this
quagmire, this ultimate reader of yours. Flitting from one thing to
another and up again to tab across and check and click another sign.
Back across and down to the end before the beginning was even
published. But as it all falls into place you might see that the end
is nearer the start in terms of what you can see at any one time.
Pause and scroll back. Stop. The length of the current research
cannot double or turn over, you must forward the ream onto the next
section until I can see it coming clearly as the dark ink upon this
pale page.
Then you are finished. Whatever that means. Quantify it
and box it up, wrapped and packed and then re-opened.
Stop.
Start.
Continue.
2 comments:
*nods head* ...... nice!
Thanks!
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