The Interval/Gap/Spacing of a poetic instant.

The Poetic Instant.

The search for the interval inherent to the Japanese culture of Ma (spacing, interval, gap)

It suggests a consciousness of time that encompasses the intermediary and the in-between, composing the present, a present in the process of becoming.

Mono-Ha, the idea of the artwork as a phenomenon of natural order with no other meaning. The artist can simply organise what already exists, and only he who dedicates himself to it – and concentrates on it – manages to maintain a privileged relationship with the world.

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Beyond the formal attraction and cultural interest of the objects, the collections also translate the consistency, the tenacity even, of ending the dispersion of the fragments of the world to reach an (illusory) form of totality. Through the careful work done, the artist becomes a conservator, in the museum sense of the term: he gathers the pieces, cleans them, counts, tidies, names and exhibits them. The same applied attention is brought to collected pieces as to created ones. Of his monastic wisdom, he nurtures the kare-sensui of his art and his life, repeating identical gestures that deepen the sense of a relationship with the world.

We cannot create

what we can do is remove the dust

that has formed on the surface of things

thus rendering visible the world contained underneath.

Sekine Nobuo, 1969

Tsukuranai to iu kota (Do not create)

Roger Ackling.

The Invisible Appears. 2020

Lydia Rekow-Fond.

Translated by Derek Byrne. 

Woven Gridshell and Wayfaring : Visual Environs/Emergent Landscapes/Lines

Walking into Emergent Landscapes : Covehithe Beach

The OLD WAYS, a JOURNEY ON FOOT, Robert Macfarlane

“ Walking was a means of personal myth-making, but it also shaped his everyday longings:

 Edward Thomas not only thought on paths and of them, but also with them.”

“To Thomas, paths connected real places but they also led out-wards to metaphysics, backwards to history and inward to the self. These traverses- between the conceptual, the spectral and the personal-occur often without signage in his writing, and are among its most characteristic events. He imagined himself in topographical terms.”

DSC_0205 Archipelagic/Light Drawing

'Ma' The space,expanse and distance between objects/events and time that can create 'boundararies for nothingness/energy'

Covehithe

Walberswick : Woven Paths/Digital Pinhole. 2016

Gridshell Building, Singleton, West Sussex

Weald and Downland Open Air Museum

Making ; Tim Ingold

Anthropology, Archaeology , Art and Architecture.

Knowing is 'understanding in practice' made from lines of active engagement with the material world.

Wayfaring : Emergent Landscapes