Schriftatlas II, 2a
Where does construction end and ruin begin? What distinguishes destruction from decay? The swift jetsam of a dropped or blasted bomb cannot share the attributes of that slow detritus which […]
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Schriftatlas I, 3a
Yet, what of this activity of collecting per se? What of collection? Is it not, tacitly, an obsessive act of repetition, each new item acquired simply to re-open the same […]
Schriftatlas I, 4a
[Unintelligible: first line completely obscured by water stain] …that each object may just as well suggest the seed, or nucleus, of a collection to which it might eventually or may […]
Schriftatlas II, 3a
[The recto of folio 3 features two diagrams, one apparently superimposed upon the other at a later date. The first, rendered in black ink is redolent of Michelangelo’s human figure […]
Schriftatlas III, 3a-3b-4a-4b-5a-5b
[NOTE: Folios 3a-5b of the third notebook contain, if not the strangest, then certainly the longest, by nearly double, of all Valaco’s entries. Thematically, the entry is anomalous in equal […]
Schriftatlas I, 5a
/ 1554 †Den 20 tag september ist mein brueder thoman Schmidl seilliger mit tott verschien nen Zwieschen 2 vnd 3 veren nach mietag gott sey Jm gennedig vnd parmhertzig vnd […]
Schriftatlas II, 3b
I’ve no longer to make a language. I’ve no longer any language to make. All the basest elements have decamped into the humid din, retreated into a dense, recondite, impoverished […]
Schriftatlas I, 5b
… vnd befalß gott dem almechtigen vnd machet mich auff die Raieß Jm 1552 Jar am 26 ta de Zember auff sannt steffanß tag pin ich auß Riedeleplada Zogen von […]
Schriftatlas II, 4a-4b-5a
Let us imagine two concepts in oscillation, in the manner of two objects in orbit about one another, at once bound to and separated from one another by the gravitational […]
Schriftatlas II, 6a
Every snapshot is the diagram of an eventual, if unintended, expropriation. The unencompassable array of these latent displacements–each as imperceptible as it is inexorable–amounts to nothing short of a horizon […]
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