There is a wonderful, poetic chaos in your listings of objects around your house. You could of course break down your lists of things into categories: e.g. organic, inorganic, useful, sentimental, subject to change, touched/Untouched etc. Or you could impose an arbitrary, poetic taxonomy, like that (of animals) described by Jorge Luis Borges, supposedly taken from an ancient Chinese encyclopædia entitled ‘Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge’. The list divides all animals into 14 categories:
1. those belonging to the Emperor
2. embalmed ones
3. trained ones
4. suckling pigs
5. mermaids (or sirens)
6. fabled ones
7. stray dogs
8. those included in this classification
9. those that tremble as if they were mad
10. innumerable ones
11. those drawn with a very fine camel hair brush
12. etcetera
13. those that have just broken the vase
14. (my favourite) those that, seen from long way off, look like flies.
This is a great piece. I love the piechart.
Funnily enough, I just started something with writing too. It used be more present in my practice but it hasn’t popped up for a while. It seems we here are a bit in synch.
Eva might have started it when she mentioned things she used to like as a teenager.
I used to listen to The Doors a lot, their poetry always put me in the zone.
Very impressive analysis Mavi. A fascinating breakdown of data.
See also Dave Beech’s book recommendation: ‘The Modern Interior’ by Penny Sparke:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4855545-the-modern-interior
There is a wonderful, poetic chaos in your listings of objects around your house. You could of course break down your lists of things into categories: e.g. organic, inorganic, useful, sentimental, subject to change, touched/Untouched etc. Or you could impose an arbitrary, poetic taxonomy, like that (of animals) described by Jorge Luis Borges, supposedly taken from an ancient Chinese encyclopædia entitled ‘Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge’. The list divides all animals into 14 categories:
1. those belonging to the Emperor
2. embalmed ones
3. trained ones
4. suckling pigs
5. mermaids (or sirens)
6. fabled ones
7. stray dogs
8. those included in this classification
9. those that tremble as if they were mad
10. innumerable ones
11. those drawn with a very fine camel hair brush
12. etcetera
13. those that have just broken the vase
14. (my favourite) those that, seen from long way off, look like flies.
This is a great piece. I love the piechart.
Funnily enough, I just started something with writing too. It used be more present in my practice but it hasn’t popped up for a while. It seems we here are a bit in synch.
Eva might have started it when she mentioned things she used to like as a teenager.
I used to listen to The Doors a lot, their poetry always put me in the zone.
Thanks Dani! I think that writing can be very useful for art practice, and can help to order thoughts in these hard times.
This is so romantic! I am in awe of the particularity of your day and your things Mavi
Thanks Holly, even if I think I maybe just own too much stuff 😉
These are really enormous ideas in regarding blogging.
You have touched some pleasant points here. Any way keep up wrinting.