Occasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture Quotes

“The gaze is a machine that can invent belief and can destroy what is tender. In this way it is like an animal or a season or a politics, or like the dark bosco of the park. Our scopic researches aligned us, we liked to think, with the great tradition of the natural philosophers, for whom seeing was indeed and irrevocably inexperienced, and wherein the admission of such inexperience served as an emblem or badge of belonging. What can we claim about the park, about the sorrows that are and were not our own? Nothing. We simply sign ourselves against silence.”
― Lisa Robertson, Occasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture

“Some fantasies are wigs and some are crinolines. Some fantasies are aleatory grottos or downspouts.”
― Lisa Robertson, Occasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture

“We would like to gently expand the technique of intuition because it admits change that remains sincere to experience without depending on the past. Intuition reveals the negative space of habit, carving an urgent threshold from the commonplace.”
― Lisa Robertson, Occasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture

“The gaze is a machine that can invent belief and can destroy what is tender. In this way it is like an animal or a season or a politics, or like the dark bosco of the park. Our scopic researches aligned us, we liked to think, with the great tradition of the natural philosophers, for whom seeing was indeed and irrevocably inexperienced, and wherein the admission of such inexperience served as an emblem or badge of belonging. What can we claim about the park, about the sorrows that are and were not our own?
second walk Nothing. We simply sign ourselves against silence.”
― Lisa Robertson, Occasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture

“Previously I mentioned the spiritual diorama. Just for the satisfaction, I’ll repeat myself. “It is hard to make great and remarkable faults in a spiritual diorama.” We knew our happiness was dependent on such faults—proportional errors, say, which expanded the point where the passional and the social meet, or the misapplied tests for chemical residues, which revealed only the critical extravagance of our narcissism. Yet our attraction was inexplicably towards the diorama.”
― Lisa Robertson, Occasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture