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Ad hock text work, scribbles and thoughts
We were arguing. I told her not to generalise. She said "I'm not generalising.
I'm talking about you."
He was looking at a foto of himself. He imagined himself to be more handsome.
She said "You don't have to trust picture." He agreed and didn't agree at the same time.
A story by A artist: 
(idea)
ARTIST:
CRITIC: The critic is the voice in your head making reasons for you not to do things
because you think too much.
ARTIST: What the fuck?
CRITIC: I only took this role because I got to say more. Especially now that I'm supporting
your own work by being thet only person saying anything of worth. What are you making now?
ARTIST: I'm gonna make myself a cup of tea. I'm actually thinking about inter-weaving lines
and spaghetti with crazy colours.
CRITIC: Milk and sugar. Hold on a minute. I feel like the artist now. It seems I've got
something controlling my influence.
CRITIC 2: Yes. Pleased to meet you. So what is it you do?
CRITIC: I prevent the artist following through an idea to the end by disrupting him with
critical thoughts and inturn this generates...
CRITIC 2: Have you lost what you were going to say? It seems a bit foggy.
CRITIC: No. Just that the Artist now makes a million choices and ideas for work and not one
of them gets truely finished. He just keeps jumping.
ARTIST: I'm really gonna make a cup of tea now. I just made sure that this dialogue stays
in the right order by drawing consecutive...
CRITIC: Having tro...(uble)
CRITIC 2: Sshhh...
ARTIST: ... numbers in the top lefthand corner. When i come back I wish to...
CRITIC: Don't write what you just thought, stay focused and write. I know you like to keep
it honest and in real time but there's got to be some fluidity.
ARTIST: This is fluidity. But again I very much doubt that this dialogue will
ARTIST (cont.): survive its criticism.
CRITIC: True.
ARTIST: When I bring back my cup of tea I'll leave an imprint of the base on the page, thus -
In the meantime, this isn't about not making work. This is inroads towards something.
CRITIC: True. We're just waiting for you, and I'll be waiting too.
ARTIST: It felt right at the time.
(End)
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