MODIFYING

Birth, growth and development of the work-shell.
Letting the contents take the right form and consequently adapting the structures containing them.

 
‘Like Daedelus, I create my wings: adding one feather a day’

(from Joseph Joubert’s ‘Diary’, 1799)

 
Things need lengthy times to be thought through and generated. It is therefore difficult to date them precisely. In order to make them, I need to follow the natural course of events and even when at a certain point they are about to concretise, they never finish being transformed.
If all of my procedure is determined by a continuous evolution that slowly leads to a transformation of the substance, the colour and the thinking that lies within this procedure, then the devices required to contain them and to allow the substance to take shape also have to change over time. They have to get used to the internal landslide, to the weight of the body and to the complexity of the thoughts. On the one hand the ‘Archivers’ that have flowed into the ‘Gestureplace’ and on the other the device for the considerations of the ‘Mindsite’, have to be perennially transformed to adapt to the spirit contained within. This means it is necessary to go from the interior subject leaving it free to become whatever it needs to become and not the opposite, which is to build a structure and a closed method to imprison the spirit inside it. It is important to give the essence the possibility to evolve, helping it through the use of systems that can assist it and support it.
What I tried to establish was not an order decided a priori, but a complexity that went on to structure following an pace inherent to the internal nature of the things which every now and then suffers a shattering to then readjust itself in another form.
This chapter describes how each of these works-shells have changed over the years. Starting from the first, the ‘Diarytheque’, right up to the ‘Mindsite’, these entities have created a system from a sequence of things determined by chance, events and necessity. They are things that have become real presences, bodies, anthropomorphic figures. It is as though they were a group of characters, connecting to each other in a collective relationship, who came to live with me (or do I live with them?) in my microcosm.
 
(Written in 2021)