Re: [-empyre-] fwd from sophie redele

["wendy joy" <w-joy@zip.com.au>]

john - i'm sorry - i just have to reply tp this - because i have had 67
emails from heinous bar
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Klima" <klima@echonyc.com>
To: <empyre@imap.cofa.unsw.edu.au>
Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 9:26 AM
Subject: Re: [-empyre-] fwd from sophie redele


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>
> Cristiano Bianchi wrote:
> >
> > > and showed to me what i was to become.
> >
> > A nut?
>
> umm, yeah.
> j
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> >
> > :-) 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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