A new layer of text, a quote from Friedrich Nietzsche is drawn on the scratched texts of Emile Cioran and Marquis De Sade. Should they agree of being in good company? The forcefield in the A4 sheet of Epson photo paper through the 3 different texts is becoming more interesting. Nietzsche's text is a quote found in his book Ecce Homo : (...) to be far beyond terror and pity and to be the eternal lust of becoming itself - that lust which also involves the lust of destruction. It is written on the scratched text of Cioran : "Each of us must pay for the slightest damage he inflicts upon a universe created for indifference and stagnation, sooner or later he will regret not having left it intact". Written on the scratched-out quote of De Sade: "In actions of mankind we recognize rather than moral or criminal acts the irresistible natural laws of creation and destruction". Written on the title of this research project "Surface Research".
The detail shows the damaged flat surface of the paper, which in certain light fall looks like porcelain. Questions, what questions are coming up? To compare the palimpsest drawing with the surface of battlefields of World War I what are the similarities and differences? Often making or creating things, objects, goods, articles of art or design is to add material. Creating is adding stuff on itself, on surfaces or mixing it, so it's possible to assemble it and to build or construct pieces for a whole. The opposite is so very interesting because we ignore it, we forget it, we don't want to deal with it.
Bon, this evening I want to read the essay "a walk for a walk's sake" by Norman Bryson, perhaps tomorrow I can be clear how to continue.
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