As I read over what I wrote yesterday, which is not something I necessarily like to do, I understand better how the development of my thinking revolves around and fully depends on what is happening in my day-to-day life, hour-by-hour actuality. I am surely not a desk philosopher, a sitting writer. Only a sculptor, who drives Gwylène mad when – after half-a-day of diary writing or hours of editing her own texts together – deplores the passing of yet an other day ‘without WORK’! Because, for the sculptor, only physical studio consummation is work!
For sure, today has started as an other consummated day then! I decided to send Darryl a copy of two of the pages of the diary: 10-28 and 10-29. In response to a conversation we had after Rasha’s Tiny Investigation on the 23rd. Whatever! It is 12:45 AM and I am not ‘at work’. I am only re-reading before sending to Darryl! Unfortunately, I needed to make some adjustments! This is called editing, self-editing, and it is where amateur writers, diary writers become real writers. A curse I say! But also a dream being fulfilled maybe. Because, let truth be told, before anything else, I have always wanted to be a writer!
I should not complain about ‘not working’ much but editing more, then. Since Gwylène and I retired from the café, I have been able, with more and more regularity, to both, do studio work and consummate time writing this diary. The most important thing to understand though, is that there would not be the writing without the sculpturing. At this point, they feed on each other very well. They complement each other into a challenging body of work.
Case in point: all this elaboration on the newly discovered work of Munesake, with his inspiring phrases: the consummation society … A society which he sees as the inextricable interlacing of relationships between individuals …
Calling the whole thing an EXISTENTIAL EFFERVESCENCE is genius!
All this elaboration then, is, in fact, in preparation for the text Gwylène has been asking me to write for ENSEMBLE 15.
ENSEMBLE 15 is the device she has imagined to implant this diary into YOU COMIN’ TOO, as an intrinsic part of her life work, so to speak. Because, of course, for the last 40 years or so, we have mostly collaborated in the practice of our art. From the Per-Generated Opera to the Running Dog, to Fast&French – Gaulart&Maliclet French Café, to Holly City, My Journey Yours, Olympia, conNECKted/TOO and finally, so far, TINYisPOWERFUL, now placed in the hands of the young generation … we have for ever attempted to deepen the implications of collaboration in the making of art as a foundational field of research towards the building of collective intelligence and imaginaries. An open call for belonging, a constant resource for the making of art tools and for the expansion of spirit of the arts. Existential effervescence again!