Building a place to stay in

 
‘We should not endevor coolly to analyze our thoughts, but, keeping the pen even and parallel with the current, make an accurate transcript of them.’

(from Henry David Thoreau’s journals, 7 March 1837)

 
The subject written about here is that of the space of the site where we find ourselves: the ‘Self-Portrait’.
Together with the actual archive, which I spoke about in the previous paragraph, it constitutes what I have termed the ‘Mindsite’ – the mental space of reflection which runs parallel and alongside it like a tortuous mechanism continuously working on the production of material, which spits out new thoughts and visions.
If the ‘Archivearchive’ is a classic cataloguing of the works, documents and exhibitions following more objective criteria, then the ‘Self-Portrait’ is the first interpretation of the archive, in which I leave a narration in continuous evolution open that undergoes constant landslides and transformations through words and images.
Every piece it contains is a topic to make emerge and catalogue, starting with the ‘Index’, a list of verbs which together define where the thought is going, before reaching the chapter ‘Ruminating’, where all the reasonings made and all the ones that continue to be developed around my work are transcribed and accumulated.
Everything contained in it is something I consider essential in my universe and which, each thing compacting with another, goes on to form a thinking pattern. Straining things a bit, I could say that the ‘Self-Portrait’ could also be considered a sort of archive, the archive of all my thoughts. Thoughts that are necessary on the one hand to reflect and on the other to be communicated in the hope of finding interlocutors and ensuring that this object-archive can be revitalised through its de-codification.
 
To consider this topic more deeply, all I can do is refer to the labyrinthine reading of this entire part starting from the introduction and finishing with this chapter, bearing in mind that because it is a project in progress, you could find something has changed every time you enter.
 
 
(Text written in 2022)