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20 October 2009

YES. the fossil brothers

I am working with the idea of two brothers figures. so they are male. historically we have Cain & Abel, Remus & Romulus, Tom & Jerry, My grandpa and his brother. and my two brothers. I am thinking of using them for the dialogue. And also maybe dan and dan and dan.
The conversation or sense of conversation is evident in the obvious dialogue between two voices/ many voices. But because there is no apparent language it will be impossible for anyone to "decode" what they are saying. With the use of a visual component though, we will be able to get some sense of where they are or who they are and maybe what they could be referring to based on what happens before and after. context.
With the "dialogue" I will try to describe the experience of an event/happening.
Gertrude Stein is a great example for me in her interpretation of objects and places. She made portraits of non-living things, focusing on the qualities of the sound of words and their meanings.

"The painters naturally were looking... and they too had to be certain that looking was not confusing itself with remembering. Remembering with them takes the form of suggesting in their painting in place of having actually created the thing in itself that they are painting... I began to make portraits of things and enclosures that is rooms and places because I needed to completely face the difficulty of how to include what is seen with hearing and listening and at first if I were to include a complicated listening and talking it would be too difficult to do. That is why painters paint still lives."
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