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

[Martin Glaz Serup]

I thought of the time when computers had a long loadingtime while starting
up; now it's seconds from you turn it on till you're there, ready to use it,
but it feels longer; like waiting for the green light in a car; it does
something to the sense of time, this very focused waiting, makes your heart
beat, makes you ver intense, very impatient. One wants to be efficient, one
wants to keep on moving, one dosen't want to waste one's time.



The "drawing while turning on a computer"; I thought it as a daily ritual,
a(nother) way to keep a diary; an emptying gesture, hosted by ritual and
reiteration; an Oulipoian shortcut to Somewhereelse.



/Martin


2011/3/3 christina at christinamcphee.net <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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