I’ll say the people holding it

STUDIO AND CUBE

This is our new home. In a complete change of everything, this home consists of a white studio. It means rather than making artwork in a domestic space as I have been for the past few years, I’ll be doing domestic things in an art-making space.

THE PEAR HOLDER IS BACK

Some other holders are here.

Bricks

Yesterday we made some straight lines.

Camper Bike

I would like to have something like this.

It makes me think of my raft, so I will take us, my friend.

Line Drawing

knee cushion jumper postcard

out of office

I am on holiday.

My Ladybirds

I recorded this short commentary as an addendum to What The Matter Is, a 60 minute audio play I created for Resonance 104.4fm.

Bootstraps

My mother was reading some of the posts I wrote last month and drew this. I think it’s exactly right. You can’t lift yourself up off the floor by your bootstraps; you can’t be inside and outside your practice at the same time; you can’t be asleep and awake at once. I might like to spend some time in the summer trying to hold myself up by my bootstraps, and see which muscles it makes hurt.

The Burrow in the Interrogative

I want to look at Kafka’s The Burrow in terms of Maurice Blanchot’s The Most Profound Question, which I wrote about last month:

“The interrogative form is charged with qualities that mean the form [the sky is blue] is very different from the form [is the sky blue? - yes]. Rather than simply affirming the truth conditions in the question, the answer ‘yes’ truncates the richness at large in the question and turns it into a singular matter of fact. Rather than meeting the various calls of the question and drawing them to richly sympathetic conclusions, it just cuts them all off short. ‘The answer is the question’s misfortune, its adversity’”. (I’ve written more here.)

I wonder whether the burrowing animal is like the verb of a sentence, raised to the beginning in a question. Of the verb Blanchot writes:

“It is as though being, in questioning itself – the ‘is’ of the questioning – had abandoned its part of resounding affirmation, its decisive, negating part, and had freed itself, even where it emerges foremost, from itself: opening itself, and opening the sentence in such a way that, in this opening, the sentence seems no longer to have its center in itself but outside of itself – in the neutral.” (p. 13)

Last month I wrote: