Work
in progress:
A new text-based web work emerging from the collaborative project The Italic I with
Clare Thornton, developed with Dane Watkins. In this work, we present our 16
stage textual lexicon devised for reflecting on the arc of a repeated fall as a
slow moving graphic, periodically interrupted by additional moments of textual
and visual annotation. The lexicon comprises the following categories: Testing (the) ground — setting up the conditions; Opening attempt — warming and flexing; Entering the arc — trust, twist, torque; A commitment made — working against impulse; Voluntary vertigo — ilinx, inclination; Becoming diagonal — the italic I; Touching limits — tilt towards (the other); Embodiment/disembodiment — mind body partition; Formless — horizontality; Letting go — a liquid state; Ecstatic impotency — the jouissance of
impuissance; Folding
of attention — a
heightened subjectivity; Gravity/levity — striking the right balances; Breathless — ventilating the idea; Voluptuous recovery — return, yet charged; Recalibrate … loop — desire to repeat. More on this project to follow soon.