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Time is filled with beginners. You are right. Now each of them is working on something and it matters. The large increments of life must not go by unrecognized. —LYN HEJINIAN
Even now she can recall how he stared back at the camera with the look of a man uncomfortable with being seen yet who needed an audience. The work perplexed her. Somewhere in that perplexity must be the art.
He felt as though a hole had opened up beneath him. The hole unnerved him because it also felt familiar; it was not a new hole but one, he realized, that had been there all along. The Artist’s work had made it visible.
Two types of time: the time it takes for sugar to melt in water, indisputable, scientific; and the time Bergson called durée réelle—real duration—time as we actually feel and live it: an old woman lost in a reverie as she sweetens her tea through a sugar cube held between her teeth.
Why a year? A: It is about being human, how we explain time, how we measure our existence. Q: Why a year? A: One year is a human calculation within a life cycle, so I could say something about life in a circle, repetition in a circle, over and over.
When life is reduced to its minimum, he said, time emerges.
It feels wrong to laugh, but we laugh when the zombies on the zombie show bumble into the sharp end of their own deaths. So is laughing to manage the pain of living grief.
