Paddy said, “I think so too”.

• The process of the making visible of objects, drawing them out of the actual body of the space, its internal cavities, still wet with its spit and dust that might at any moment be choked back down the throat at the flip of a light switch.
• it is the limp skin of the text as it becomes inhabited by the objects that live through it.
• Presenting something complete that contains its own unfinishedness presents a hole. Or a whole hole. Something with a hole in it, to puncture, to let more damn light in.
• As a drop of water collecting mass and energy before falling, this suspension point is full of movement, but also of fixity. It is a vanitas that shivers with an assured end not yet reached: that moment of finitude is suspended, but it is not still.
• Skulls, candles, ships in a storm, flowers, fruit.
• An edit-tide.
• Pulling in broken utensils.

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deathstruggle.jpg

• Take away my capture of the image as it extrudes through me like spaghetti and I’m just spitting against the wall now, without the coherence of words.
• Something with a hole in, to puncture it, to let more damn light in.

I remembered my comment being deleted

• it is a series of re-blown bubbles filmed to the point of bursting, the footage then being spliced together just before each dies. The title of the film references the popular French term for an orgasm; la petite mort or little death, suggesting in this context a desire for prolonged or even infinite pleasure.
• For breakfast I take a communion of round black moons
• When the show is over, these finest Scots pine planks are cut down once more. Unscrewed and hammered apart. The pine topples for its last time, unbolted, unsupported, codenamed C24 DRY GRADEd: downgraded, degraded, timbered.

Spending a night with the work is so tempting

• Maybe it’s in the font?
• Or, thinking of endings, film credits?

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end-roller.jpg

• 1001 nights, the deferred death, storytelling as a survival operation. I like that, when something is stopped and in that stoppage it has a very particular movement.
• Set it going in the gallery.

My favourite sentence is probably this one.