IDEA FORAGING & AN INTERVIEW w/ O32c
Specimen Monthly #12.5
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MEANDERING THOUGHTS ON FORAGING FOR IDEAS
“Beautiful as a chance encounter between a sewing machine and an umbrella on an operating table.”
Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont, Les Chants de Maldaror
Long before Instagram’s arborescent algorithms were enslaving our minds by tree-branching off into a million dazzling paths of binge-worthy endless imagery…
or before the ramified and rhizomatic routes (roots) of hyperlinks were sending us down so many rabbit holes…
or before beat poets and punk zines were grafting cut-up collisions of unrelated image-and-text to make new and mutant forms…
or before the surrealists cross-pollinated incongruous images (a sewing machine and an umbrella ) to fertilize the untended gardens of our unconscious minds…
even before the 16th century Wunderkammern were juxtaposing disparate objects, artifacts, and specimens (a meteorite, a mermaid skeleton, a sliver from Christ’s crucifix) to inspire wonder… Like waaaaayyy before all that stuff, we had “Florilegia.”
FLORILEGIA: latin, flor (flowers) legere (to gather)
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