Artist feature, Synchron Magazine, visual art and fiction, Pilot Issue, 01/ 2021

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1 Geologists and archeologists, those instruments of consciousness who are engaged in

reawakening the memory of the world, have one guiding principle for their work. It is called the law of stratification, but it is as simple as falling downstairs – and, indeed, resembles it in that both are inevitable results of the work of gravity. (Hawkes, Jacquetta: A Land, 1991)

2 30.07.1998 1700. Wodurch entsteht eigentlich Wahrheit, im Text? Durch nichts Einzelnes, durch kein Detail. Nicht durch die Selbstdeklaration der Sache als Realität, Kunst, Trash, Reportage, als Wirklichkeit oder auch als Wahrheit, eh klar. ( Rainald Goetz: Abfall für alle, 2003 )

3 In all these legends human beings have seen themselves melting back into rock, in their imaginations must have pictures the body, limbs and hair melting into smoke and solidifying into these blocks of sandstone, limestone and granite. Some feeling that the converse of this idea arises from sculpture. (Hawkes, Jacquetta: A Land, 1991) Some things that fly there be—Birds—Hours—the Bumblebee—Of these no Elegy. Some things that stay there be—Grief—Hills—Eternity—Nor this behooveth me. (Emily Dickinson, 1859)

4 One goal of material culture studies based on the idea of recursivity is the illumination of difference between the messages on the surface of things and the models of society enacted by people’s use of them or, more colloquially, the differences between what an item of material culture promises its users and what it delivers, especially when what is delivered has no apparent connection to an object’s function. (Potter, P.B. Critical Archaeology: In the ground and on the street, 1992)

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