ref: mmj Post 21 Oct 2006 12.05 : ‘THISISABOOK… The uncertain task… to condense and funnel… a work entitled "Istanbul" ‘.
ak describes the uncertain task this way – ‘making the invisible visible’. The invisible moment. In other words an event:
1. for the art of making the present visible; ref Anne Carson, The Economy of the Unlost
2. for the impression of the visible (a theory); ref Slavoj Zizek, The Parallax View
What the reviewer (London Review of Books, 7 Sept 2006, Pp 7-8) described as these "scandalous" modes of intervening in the world.ak and mmj are travelling without laptops, cam-corders or other sophisticated electronic apparatus – apart from our digital cameras, and photographs which we anticipate being able to add to pour posts, as evidence, and proof of travel, material to assist the work (of fiction).
This may all take a little time (reader be patient!). We practice this Yoga… along with meditation and prayer – these are personal revelations from the Files marked "Confidential" – ak is a Roman Catholic, mmj a Buddhist. Both converted to their faiths; this uncertain task, looking for God, looking for the Triple Gem. Both recognise the restraint of their faiths: this uncertain task; the restraint of God, the restraint of the Triple Gem.
mmj