three years to reach me from you, by boat or horse or car
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Dear Adriana Elena Blidaru,
You wrote to me in May. It’s now September, three years later. Thank you for the Nathaniel Mackey text. I just printed it out. Imagine that, this text you sent me took three years to get to me. This temporal delay is just that, a delay. But, I imagine it could be something else. Imagine if it was the length of a journey from one point to another. Imagine it took three years to reach me from you, by boat or horse or car or whatnot. Or, maybe it wandered a little, got lost, like a message in a bottle. I heard a story recently of a message in a bottle found off Australia that was thrown over board over a hundred years ago. I just printed the text, since the images were lo-res the words are a little blurry. But I found that if I blur my eyes, the blurry texts becomes legible somehow. So I am going to blur my eyes and read this text that you sent me. I only have three sea horses left from the Frieze project. They are sitting on a shelf in my studio. I keep giving them away. It is ongoing dilemma of mine. To give everything away.
- D
community | missed connections
2021-02-22