"They belong only to their moment and place. If I understand him, Knausgaard is presenting nonfiction as being more alive than fiction—and this is so because nonfiction is limited or more focused or at least more specific, even narrower, in its ambitions."
I don't know if I understand or agree with this, but I am happy to have it as a kind of tiny Calder mobile to consider as it hangs there before me. THe power of almost passive gesture in reporting what one sees. But then wasn't K's big epiphany that he was allowed to explain what he says in psychological terms? Anyway, thank you.
I just read the piece about Celia Paul and tore out the pages because there were sentences I wanted in front of me in my morning writing. Aliveness, yes, but also how what you are close to stays near. I loved it. I am going to read Inadvertance now that I've read you reading it. I think we all need those spaces of freedom in part in order to be able to summon ourselves to make those phone calls. I can see, in your paintings, how much more freedom has come into play and it is wonderful. I am sure you will bring that to your new project, that aliveness that is so much a part of your work (and your being).
"When I draw, I feel as if I am centering myself and able to focus. I’m no longer sucked in by the troubled vortex that is news on social media. It is my belief that my writing, as a result, will be more settled and born of a deeper contemplation than purely reactive." Yes, that's how I feel and I'm glad to know drawing has become this for you.
Interesting. The fact that one can't easily separate fiction and non-fiction is particularly evident in writers like Knausgaard.
"They belong only to their moment and place. If I understand him, Knausgaard is presenting nonfiction as being more alive than fiction—and this is so because nonfiction is limited or more focused or at least more specific, even narrower, in its ambitions."
I don't know if I understand or agree with this, but I am happy to have it as a kind of tiny Calder mobile to consider as it hangs there before me. THe power of almost passive gesture in reporting what one sees. But then wasn't K's big epiphany that he was allowed to explain what he says in psychological terms? Anyway, thank you.
I just read the piece about Celia Paul and tore out the pages because there were sentences I wanted in front of me in my morning writing. Aliveness, yes, but also how what you are close to stays near. I loved it. I am going to read Inadvertance now that I've read you reading it. I think we all need those spaces of freedom in part in order to be able to summon ourselves to make those phone calls. I can see, in your paintings, how much more freedom has come into play and it is wonderful. I am sure you will bring that to your new project, that aliveness that is so much a part of your work (and your being).
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"When I draw, I feel as if I am centering myself and able to focus. I’m no longer sucked in by the troubled vortex that is news on social media. It is my belief that my writing, as a result, will be more settled and born of a deeper contemplation than purely reactive." Yes, that's how I feel and I'm glad to know drawing has become this for you.
Fantasticks all around!