"I do not seek-I find."
-Pablo Picasso
On Sat, 12 Aug 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> << But
> I do know that boredom is the great creator of all new ideas, the deep well
> from
> which they arise. Without it I'd never come up with anything. >>
>
> This is wondrous, the kind of idea that wakes me up all caught amidst one of
> those seven sins such as sloth and makes the definitions, and thus my
> outlook, new.
>
> What exactly IS it that provokes? makes us act, or even think, think anew
> and write the note we never wrote because it is so wrong to be, say: scared
> of writing the wrong thing? as if there could ever BE a "wrong thing". it
> just may be the wrongest thing that sets us in motion, like the lost photos
> and the photographer's gentle lament (no anger?!!) that made me think of
> INTENTION, all lost intention, all the things we MEAN to do and YEARN to do,
> say, show, expand upon, share
>
> some art that would embrace the lost attempts? this feels too close to
> weakness: the things I SEE but do not DO? no, the lost photos are not in
> that realm. they are existant. they ARE. (somewhere) I'd like to
> record this (somewhere) (maybe) (if) (as though)
>
> I'd like to see your lost somewhere, as I write this it feels the opposite to
> FLUXUS, which is HERE right-in-your-face -------- but is it?
>
> sorry, just following thoughts on boredom/stimulation/the wanderlust of the
> desperado -- nbb
>
