[-empyre-] This drawing while turning on a computer.

[christina at christinamcphee.net]

dear -empyreans=

I want to start by describing an encounter with Martin Glaz Serup and  
his writing, and how he noticed something strange
in the 'field' of a drawing.

Martin came to visit from Denmark to California in November 2010.  I  
draw
in a studio called SHED.  Martin has just published a new prose poem:  
FIELD.
So Martin wanted (being FIELD-esque ) to witness SHED.  See what's in  
there.

He walked quickly in, and out of the corner of his eye, noticed a  
small work on a piece of ragged washi.  A couple
of trailing, scraggly glyph forms in ball point, some ink stains, and  
then, in graphite scrawl, some words.
"This drawing will turn on a computer."

When Martin walked by the drawing, he misread it.  He thought it said,  
"This drawing while turning on a computer."

Later he noticed the gap. He confessed the misread and proposed to  
make something from the misread, 'this drawing while.."
In that frustrating and neglected gap of time and space when no one  
knows what to do and has to wait.

We have the he idea to draw (Christina) and write (Martin) something  
every morning in a certain short number of minutes (a fixed time,  
every day, no more, no less),
during the period/interval of turning on the computer.  As if, this  
interval is 'while SHED while FIELD' .

(How the drawing acquired, in another drive-by,  a prospective speech  
act, "This drawing will...." is another story..)



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christina mcphee

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