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What is recounted is not an adventure but incidents: we must take the word in a slight, as modest, a sense as possible. The incident – already much weaker than the accident (but perhaps more disturbing) – is simply what falls gently, like a leaf, on life’s carpet; it is that faint, fugitive crease given to the fabric of days; it is what can be just barely noted: a kind of notation degree zero, precisely what is needed to be able to write something.
– Roland Barthes, via Marta Fontolan
These are the most Hollywood of my benches. This time the thing I was telling myself is that I was reconstructing, in retrospect, but also all at once, the last five years. Since 2015, all of the benches, produced one per year, have been scaled versions of existing benches or quasi architectures in civic or commercial space. I often used the word tether to describe the benches. They are tethers to ongoingness or tethers to speci…
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What is recounted is not an adventure but incidents: we must take the word in a slight, as modest, a sense as possible. The incident – already much weaker than the accident (but perhaps more disturbing) – is simply what falls gently, like a leaf, on life’s carpet; it is that faint, fugitive crease given to the fabric of days; it is what can be just barely noted: a kind of notation degree zero, precisely what is needed to be able to write something.
– Roland Barthes, via Marta Fontolan
These are the most Hollywood of my benches. This time the thing I was telling myself is that I was reconstructing, in retrospect, but also all at once, the last five years. Since 2015, all of the benches, produced one per year, have been scaled versions of existing benches or quasi architectures in civic or commercial space. I often used the word tether to describe the benches. They are tethers to ongoingness or tethers to speci…
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