RE: [-empyre-] fwd from sophie redele

["Cristiano Bianchi" <cristianobianchi@yahoo.com>]

> and showed to me what i was to become.

A nut?

:-) Cristiano

PS Beautyful story!


> -----Original Message-----
> From: empyre-admin@imap.cofa.unsw.edu.au 
> [mailto:empyre-admin@imap.cofa.unsw.edu.au] On Behalf Of John Klima
> Sent: 28 March 2002 07:19
> To: empyre@imap.cofa.unsw.edu.au
> Subject: Re: [-empyre-] fwd from sophie redele
> 
> 
> 
> hi sofie +,
> 
> boredom was in many ways, the original impetus for me 
> becoming an artist.  when i was a kid, i sucked at sports, i 
> found television boring, i couldn't sit still long enough to 
> read a book, i didn't have friends (cause i sucked at 
> sports), so i spent an entire summer grinding a 6" telescope 
> miror. this process consists of mounting a half inch thick 
> circle of glass (known as the "tool") to a 55 gallon drum, 
> spreading carborundum and water on the glass to make a 
> grinding slurry, and pushing back and forth over the tool, a 
> one inch thick, 6 inch diameter pyrex blank, all the while 
> slowly walking around the drum. for days and days and days, 
> back and forth pushing the mirror, making a pleasing grinding 
> sound, and all the while walking in a circle around the drum. 
>  needless to say everyone who cared to notice thought i was 
> completely nuts. but in that time how my mind did wander! and 
> the process of grinding that mirror liberated me from 
> everything a young boy was "supposed" to do, and showed to me 
> what i was to become.
> 
> j
> 
> > 
> > From: John Klima<KLIMA@ECHONYC.COM>
> > Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 14:56:44 -0500 > </STRONG>
> > >you cant have art without boredom
> > 
> > hi,
> > have been following your interesting conversations !
> > i definitively agree with the idea of creation through 
> repetition, but 
> > i think it is more in a process of repetition + appropriation + 
> > exhaustion that you go 'beyond' and create/do something unexpected. 
> > boredom makes me quit before i get there. sofie
> > 
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