Mab explores day 75 in Selavy Oh's construct
Mab: Selavy Oh's
construct is like a beehive. A dynamo hum. No, not that, but a honeycomb. No, it's exactly like seashells. No, it's more like crystallization.
Mab: (
upon reflection) It's orthogonal geometry but it's not geometry, it's scaffolding in search of form…..
Mab: (
still pondering) It is a mysterious continuous formation, a gathering emergence……
Mab: (back again after a break) It has the appearance of chaotic spontaneity but was built up methodically over the extended time period (and fleeting passage) of 75 days
Mab: (
counting on fingers) Its inhabitants are time and events and us, to do with scripted striations, fractures, mirrors, miniatures, concurrences, confluences, whisperings, forces, pleatings, colors, flips ,and systolic soundwaves
(
Mab falls asleep and dreams she is joined by others who continue the revery)
Morton Feldman: …we don't know where the passage begins, and where it ends; we don't know we are in a passage… The overall experience of the whole composition becomes the passage.
Mab: If you zoom out, Morton, you can see that the passages interchange
Robert Irwin: It's a psychic build-up, but it's also a pure energy build-up.
Mab: and a day build-up too
Robert Henri: ...not only in the pleasure it inspires, but in the comprehension of the new order of construction used in its making.
Evelyn Underhill: ...it is not strange that certain maps, artistic representations or symbolic schemes, should have come into being which describe or suggest the special experiences of the mystical consciousness…
Mab: I'm pretty sure that Selavy Oh would not say that about this
construct
Carolyn Forché: ...language breaks, becomes tentative, interrogational, kaleidoscopic. The form of this language bears the trace of extremity, and may be composed of fragments: questions, aphorisms, broken passages of lyric prose or poetry, quotations, dialogue, brief and lucid passages that may or may not resemble what previously had been written.
Mab: That's more like it
Emmanuel Levinas: It is of the essence of art to signify only between the lines–in the intervals of time, between times–like a footprint that would precede the step, or an echo preceding the sound of a voice.
Frank O'Hara: I assume you speak of the age in which great forms
appear, only to be taken apart ten years later…
Mab: Well that was a long time ago, Frank, relatively speaking. And backwards.
(
Mab doesn't know of what she speaks, but this is her dream)
Odilon Redon: Each man should be the historian of his own heart.
Paul Valéry: the mollusk exudes its shell
Mab (
nods at Odilon and Paul)
Paul Eluard:
Quand les cimes de notre ciel se rejoindront
Ma maison aura un toit.
(When the peaks of our sky come together
My house will have a roof.)
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