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 […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The luminescence (I insist: the luminous or radiant essence) of the ruin surely derives from its multi-faceted surface, while that which is beyond expression, articulation, substantiation in the surface of […]
What of the collector impelled not by abundance and redundancy, but rather by poverty and concentration, by scarcity and singularity? What of the collection conceived as a projection of lost […]
Let us pose the question more precisely: is not the image, every image, but a vector of its future misuse, hence the projection of its essential ex-propriety, the inscription, in […]
The ruin as liberation (of the material: from time into space, from function into form)? Or as limit (of an architecture’s aspiring to an elusive completion)? The ruin as decrease, […]
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