Searching for the object

This small writing project developed as a means to generate some textual movement through creative production at a time when making objects has been constrained. The written word has its own relations and methods of production that pose different technical and compositional challenges to those of casting and photography. Though text surrounds and is imbedded in the castings and photographs, text for and of itself generates relations to the referent that are both more obvious and more complicated. When we write about a subject we approach that subject through a whole series of social discourses (doxa). It is inevitable that the subject is recuperated and determined through the writing. This text acknowledges this debt to the language of culture (the sociolect), but also tries to circumvent it through different voices that directly questions the role of the author in the creative process. The text enunciates an attempt to glance and lance jouissance by recuperating the creative productivity of (an)other, while utilising the same techniques as its subject, that are then mirrored through repetition. In this process both the object of projection, and the author become immeshed in a web of transposition that hopefully generates scraps of loss for the reader as writer. So I post this text with some trepidation that it be read as a continual act of ecriture, a creative process borne of a need for ongoing productivity.

searching for the object