head on a stick

I am interested in experiences, thinking, and language (visual and literary), and how we create our identity though the things we reveal and conceal. I share my own categories of books, thoughts about personal readings, films, studio practice, and observations/musings.

27 November 2007

27 November: heavy sleep, heavy rain.

Collecting, what is the impulse to gather, accumulate, amass and store things.
Collecting is related to collecting, collating, assembling, order, disorder, chaos, presentation, shelving, display, content, production, reproduction, economics, information, language, property, possessing, power, sovereignty, ownership, territory, bounadries, identity, things, thingness, stuff, junk, having, memory, trace, nostalgia, loss, desire, fear, waste, elimination, categorization, sacred and profane, materiality, diversity,decay, fantasy, circulation, circuitousness, exchange, give and take, the gift, association, autobiographical, political, geographical, environmental, religious, social, temperal, indeterminate, ephemeral,remants, parts,external, internal, cultural,preference, projection, self-creation, subjectivity, intersubjectivity, interchange, multiples, orginal, authenticity, orgins, longing, space, time, arranegment, installation, identification, classification, series,contradictions, difference, simliarity, artifacts, relics, scraps, remains, archives, label, stacking, surface, value, power object, aesthetics, index, model, matrix, objects, intimacy, communication, paradox, meaning,ambivalence, simultaneity, continuity, discontinuity,frameworks, sybmology, symbols, mythology, stand-in, personification, links, existence, humanity, transformation,evidence, testimony, absence, presence, reflection,history, legacy, fragment, texture, construction,heterogenity, homogeniety, icons, strategies, composition, interpretation, found objects, mnemonic, experience, control, articulation, extension, practice,mortality, immortality, transition, the metaphysical, place, the melancholic, process, death, life,
......to be continued

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