Friday, 13 June 2025

Vispo: Normal Linguistic Exchange

RTomens, 2025

Yes, and we wonder...what is 'normal'?

"How are you?"

"Fine."

The truth can be too much to reveal, can't it? You may not be fine at all, but who is the right person to tell the truth to? Best friend? Partner? Wife? Husband? Sometimes, not even our nearest and dearest merit being told the truth. They merit a lie, because...the truth can be painful, upsetting....etc

Sorry, I didn't mean to be 'philosophical'. It just happened.

The piece above is the result of an almost painful process...by which I mean it was...awkward...not easy...quite...obstinate in its refusal to manifest itself. Other times, most times, the flow takes hold and bam-bam-bam! Normal Linguistic Exchange is...ugly. That's OK. I think it has an ugliness about it, although beauty is in the eye of the beholder, eh? I paused in the process more times than usual, for longer than usual. Would lines drawn in pen help? I added them anyway. More carbon marking? I increased the density of the blackness in the outer sections. The inner shape looks like a bird...on water...damn it! Perhaps you don't see that. I wish I'd never said it. Now you will see it.

TTFN
 

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