
You enter a tunnel from the slim end of a question mark, the interrogation point.
The general tunnel idea is in and out again the other side, there is no going back.
The question comes in the curve.
Doodle on the floorplan, it’s a stretch, but obviously a good one. It serves to oversimplify and to create issues to reflect on where there were none before.
Like abstract painting.
A bottleneck is a localised disruption. The result of specific physical conditions, points of vulnerability, subjects of action. An organizing principle to relay general uneasiness that is irritating but you could call interesting. Or aggressively facing decisions that others have made regardless of you, and pointing with your outstretched finger at them until you tire and lose aim.
Or sometimes it’s you who makes decisions of significance and they pull the rug out from under.
How far can you carry the eclectic show practice before it finally congeals (into either style or something else silly, to happily chip away at).
V.P.
















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