23.05.00 : drifting and dotted lines

Tuesday. 23rd May

two things have struck me from the last few messages...

one is the notion of the dotted line - in architectural representations - this might be - a windowed wall, arcade, wall with many doors on any architectural plan ie it is a line which links two areas which have previously been determined as separate - ie inside and outside/ kitchen and cafe etc. if it is dot dash dot dash dot - then it marks something jutting out overhead if it is dash dash dash then it marks something below but not on the same horizontal plane. a cross indicates a void - or a linking space vertically between two floors. in relation to patchwork - the dots are holes which allow links to be made. in relation to the material page. dots allow the page to be deconstructed by the reader. they suggest that the writer might be intentionally giving the reader a 'piece' of the page

the other is drifting - i wonder about the trace and the residue. is the trace the clue as in the detective story where you are looking backwards towards the origin - or is it a prop that suggests future action the clue is on the threshold - like benjamin's reading of paul klee's angelus novelus - being dragged into the future while looking at the debris of the past the residue seems different - it is the only marking of something fluid that has been drfting and happens to have ended up 'here' - it marks the passage of chance - in a sense it is non-representational - or is it?

Jane