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I've been trying to write this for the sculpture page for a couple of weeks now and it's getting to be like a homework assignment that I have no idea how to write. I have Brian Eno's diary for 1995 sitting on my desk with a deck of Oblique Strategies that aren't really helping. I think the Oblique Strategies would work better if they were in fortune cookies. That way you'd have to drink tea and eat the fortune cookie while contemplating the strategy. This would slow you down enough to really use the deck, because all I'm doing is stressing about the deadline for this. (Camille wants to wrap it in HTML and FTP up tonight!) I don't dare get up to make a pot of tea and pretend that I got the card from a fortune cookie because I've already gotten up from the computer once without writing anything to have lunch. Anyway…

I lost interest in making pieces relating to the Crucifixion Wave in 2002 since beginning them in 1995. The Wave, for lack of a better term, is an idea or concept first caught by artists in many disciplines that filters down and becomes part of the present time consciousness of the general society. I think the initial idea is floating somewhere in the future and that an artist catches it thereby adding strength or a solidity to the wave until another artist catches it and then finally it becomes so solid from so many artists working on it that the society that these artists are part of, catches it and is dragged into the future. This is how societies move forward in time, through their artists.

As near as I can figure, the wave is some sort of quality which makes art the only real way to communicate it, since art, too, is a quality. By art, I'm mostly talking about the traditional visual arts (painting, sculpture, collage, etc.), writing and music. It seems that the more abstract the communication of the wave, the more closely it duplicates the actual quality of that wave. Conversely, the less abstract the communication of the wave the more solid it gets.

This has been proven to me personally over and over. I'll catch a wave, like the Crucifixion. I'll work with it. Some one will send me a CD or I'll buy a stack of CDs or my kids will have a CD that I'll listen to in my studio. I'll find that one or more of these CDs will be a concept album about the Crucifixion. I'll randomly buy a book and find that it addresses the Crucifixion. Then something like "The Passion of Christ" comes along and that wave is about as solid as it can get. Here's a quote that relates to my boxes. (Which is the reason for having Eno's diary on my desk.)

"A box is a deep frame. A room is a deep box."

7 Feb. 1995, pg.43 A Year with swollen appendices by Brian Eno
Faber and Faber, London:Boston

There, finished!

Now, about Laibach...!

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