COLLECTING TEXTS
Saving these texts is a humongous job.
It's the only part of the project that almost got me down. It's
so extensive. On the other hand I need them to flesh out the
allegory. Because of the model I used.
Yes. yes.
That end of the gallery stands for
something. It holds a record of everything that passes through.
Whether anyone ever reads those or not doesn't matter.
No.
I still want to put them in the binder.
I absolutely understand.
I'll use such an abundance of words
that ah, ........
That's actually another aspect of your
practice that I could have talked about. It is that ability to,
or that desire to incorporate everything. So you're working within
some kind of limited system as we always are. Ah, but within
that system, not to edit out, not to make decisions that this
is not worthy of being part of the final result.
That's actually part of the limitation--not
to edit.
Yeah. yeah.
I guess it is here a little bit. "She
doesn't like to miss anything. Even those things that you imagine
she would not like." Yeah.
Yeah.
And that's why when I wrote this I
felt very very free because I knew that there were some personal
things there that you might prefer that weren't there in print
on an invitation such as this but I also know you well enough
that I thought that I could get away with it.
[Laughter]
And I can, see. [More laughter] So
we know one another too well.
CONTEXT
She said, "It was the only nice
thing we had in the parlor."
Yeah
She always names two other things,
grandma and grandpa park's portrait in the oval gilt frame and
a picture of some kind of flowers made out of hair.
Oh. Oh a hair weave.
She said it was hair from people that
had died.
Yeah.
Ha ha.
Yeah, we had a couple of those in the
museum I worked at in Chilliwac.
You did!
Yah, it was a very popular Victorian
thing.
To make pictures out of hair.
Yeah
Human hair?
Well they were like reeds or kind of
floral arrangements
She said this one was a bouquet of
flowers or something.
Yeah, something like that.
The flowers were made out of different
colours of hair.
Yeah, and then it was put in a deep
glass frame and hung on the wall. It was a very Victorian kind
of thing. it would have been old fashioned in her time.
Well she didn't think too much of it.
This lanscape is the one she liked.
Grandpa Park's portrait was in a gold
oval frame and it hung on the calcimined wall in the front
room.
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