RESIDUE
That which is left behind. From sedere to sit.
Reside, resident. The occupant.
Remains, dregs, scraps, fragments, dust. After the process is over.
Phenomena that exist on the edge of our perceptions are in a state of becoming. In the absence of something defined, the observer is forced to create. In the presence of something decayed the observer recreates, with some degree of inaccuracy.
At the threshold, both on the way in and on the way out, there are only fragments.
‘Are we not touched by the same breath of air which was among that which came before? is there not an echo of those who have been silenced in the voices to which we lend our ears today? Have not the women, who we court, sisters who they do not recognize anymore? If so, then there is a secret protocol between the generations of the past and that of our own. For we have been expected upon this earth.’
Walter Benjamin, On the Concept of History
Forebearance.
Self-constrained by genetic means.
What constitutes myself, who’s presence is present?
Marks and other indications
Inside the image is the image of the image, the stuff from which it is made: all the inconsistencies, the errors, the blemishes and scratches, the confusions of the light that falls on its surface and the dust in the air between it and the eyes that see it.
This is as true of images and ideas as it is of history.
We II
Borderless, both in the present and through time. Marks resurface as construction and decay, echoing.