notes towards a provisional manifesto
Posted on December 1st, 2002 in musings and
notes towards a provisional manifesto (I)
as architects, designers, painters, sculptors, writers, and poets (i.e. “makers”) we are ultimately about the business of things which exist in the world. while we cannot escape the inevitability of language in terms of signification, we do not (for the most part) stamp our creations with so many words. there is something there in these objects that exists more-than language–a special character which, while never existing entirely distinct from language, supercedes language and arises from the fortuitous (aleatory?) combination of any number of factors in order to effect a sense of the ineffable. it is knowing something deeply by feeling it deeply. it is tacit in the fullest sense of tacitus–that is, silence.
john cage said: “I have nothing to say and I am saying it.”
sometimes I think: “I have something say and I am not saying it.” which is muteness, a refusal to speak.
