24. Zones of Interpretation

Plans taken from the mappings of Kafka’s The Trial (1925) are layered, creating a palimpsestic state where all spaces are experienced simultaneously within ‘a vast network…an ocean of possibilities.” (D. Lynch’s Inland Empire (2007))

Pencil on layers of tracing paper

Scaling up and printing reveal the glitches, ravaged textures and determined shadows under a forensic microscope…

ENTROPY

ENTROCOPY

              COPY

              COPY

              COPY

This process of interpreting…

reinterpreting,

copying,

tracing,

copying,

translating

…interpreting…

…

Constructing a 3D interpretation of Kafka ‘floor plan’…

…

Beginning to translate onto fabric…

Portrait of K. (detail)

Interesting when folded….

Accumulates meaning…

Folding of the fabric (time and space)

Portrait of K. (detail folded)

…

TRACKING BY TEXTURE

‘No one here has ever come back the same way.’

‘There’s no going straight here…things change here every minute.’ (Quotes from Tarkovsky’s Stalker (1979))

Tracking the Zone (detail)

“И небо раскололось, как свиток, когда оно свернулось”

(“And the sky was split apart like a scroll when it is rolled up”)

Note to self: MAINTAIN KNOWLEDGE OF THE ESSENCE AS WELL AS FORM/KNOWLEDGE OF THE WHOLE AS WELL AS DETAIL