Not to lose ourselves in the cosmos, we take hold of a reference point in
space. We look for a point that is in sharp focus where the contemplation about
the cosmos can materialize and find a sheet of paper. With each new line of
text – extracted from George Perec’s Espèces d’espaces – an image of the cosmos
is taking shape from my personal reference point.
Within
this frame of the page the other scale levels can be considered. However, these
other levels can never expand beyond the limits of the page as our focus
decreases with every increase in scale. Where you can scrutinize every square centimetre
of the sheet of paper – and you literally traverse each one with your pen / the
ink of the silkscreen print / ... – your bedroom has unknown corners, your
house has places covered under a thick layer of dust, ...
With
every increase in scale level, the precision of its representation on the sheet
of paper drops. The page is represented with a 1 to 1 precision, the bedroom,
house street, town, country, continent, earth, cosmos are each time smaller
until you end up with the single dot at the centre of the page: a final
abstraction.
Thomas
Willemse
March 2014
March 2014