David Jones, artist and poet (1895-1974) begins his PREFACE TO THE ANATHEMATA :

'I have made a heap of all that I could find.' (1) So wrote Nennius, or whoever composed the introductory matter to Historia Brittonum. He speaks of an 'inward wound' which was caused by the fear that certain things dear to him 'should be like smoke dissipated'. Further, he says, 'not trusting my own learning, which is none at all, but partly from writings and monuments of the ancient inhabitants of Britain, partly from the annals of the Romans and the chronicles of the sacred fathers, Isidore, Hieronymous, Prosper, Eusebius and from the histories of the Scots and Saxons although our enemies . . . I have lispingly put together this . . . about past transactions, that [this material] might not be trodden under foot'. (2)

(1) The actual words are coacervavi omne quod inveni, and occur in Prologue 2 to the Historia.
(2) Quoted from the translation of Prologue 1. See The Works of Gildas and Nennius, J.A.Giles, London 1841.


01 June 2013

You Are Here




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Fig.3  Exploded Diagram

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A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
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LOGOS/HA HA

      

Dear Diary,

A long discussion yesterday with J and L about the ways some one might order a heap of Art and non-Art things. 

We talked about 'Art and its Objects' (Richard Wollheim). About Logos - the Speaking into Being of the Interverse - and, from the other end of the bag of wind, farts n laughter. About language as thing and as intermediate projection veil. About the possibility or not of Clear Seeing. 

We talked about various Label formats -  past, present and possible. About entity, identity-fication, classification, taxonomy trees and the Axeman Cometh. Archives, files, cataloging and access ability. About the Thing-In-Itself and interconnectedness. About Indra's Net. About vertical hierarchies and the horizontal postmodern plain. Ditto: the structures of institutions and their divisions of regard and responsibility.

Later, neuron drifts ebb toward sleepytown... patterns of connection... floating layers of exploding diagrams...

Snap awake, draw this...

P




You Are Here (detail #2)
Fig.2  Radiance of the Exploding View

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A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
someone looks at something ...
 
LOGOS/HA HA


You Are Here (detail #1)
Fig.1  Exploded View

detail
A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
someone looks at something ...
 
LOGOS/HA HA