Historic documentation: Black pigment ink, laser print
Recording mythic events in writing establishes, as well, a new experience of the permanence, fixity, and un repeatable quality of those events. Once fixed on the written surface, mythic events are no longer able to shift their form to fit current situations. Current happenings are thus robbed of their mythic, storied resonance; when the myths are written down, contemporary events acquire a naked specificity and uniqueness hitherto unknown. Page 188.
Recording mythic events in writing establishes, as well, a new experience of the permanence, fixity, and un repeatable quality of those events. Once fixed on the written surface, mythic events are no longer able to shift their form to fit current situations. Current happenings are thus robbed of their mythic, storied resonance; when the myths are written down, contemporary events acquire a naked specificity and uniqueness hitherto unknown. Page 188.
A drawing documenting my night. Every event was written as I was experiencing it. The events get progressively more human as reference to the faux personalization of contemporary documentation. Every event is contained within its own image as a reference to the fractal nature of historical repetition.
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