Antony Clarkson
“Question your tea spoons.
What is there under your wallpaper?
How many movements does it take to dial a phone number? Why?”
Georges Perec, “Approaches to What?” from “L’Infra-ordinaire”, 1989
Life goes on around everyone for every moment of everyday, but what I feel sets the artist’s apart is that it is their duty to question every one of those moments.
Life goes on around everyone for every moment of everyday, but what I feel sets the artist’s apart is that it is their duty to question every one of those moments. As Perec points out; it isn’t the big events that shape our lives, most of us will never actually experience those firsthand; it is the small things, the everyday, l’infra-ordinaire, these are the things that matter in every life. They raise more than enough possibilities to fill any life. And it is in the recognition of these possibilities and our responses to them that inspiration is found.