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 […]
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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 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 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 […]
Schriftatlas III, 6a-6b
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 […]
Schriftatlas I, 8a
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 […]
Schriftatlas II, 7a
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 […]
Schriftatlas III, 8a
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, […]
