Folding the Fold

I have been creating a new text from the essay Folding into the Haptic. This was initiated by my showing work based around the essay at Colony 13 in Aberteifi/Cardigan August 2013.
I have folded, concertina-wise, a printed version of the essay Folding into the Haptic. I then transcribed all full words, including new words made across the creases. The punctuation is new. Later I suspect that I will reduce the piece over time by erasure but not changing the order of the words

The work at Colony 13 is an installation: touch textile text fold  including text and photographs. The space that the work is showing in has been through several incarnations including being flats. The domestic weaves its way through my work so this is an ideal setting. In the essay I cover thoughts on boundaries, edges, textile, dust and have used these references in creating the installation

A link to the new text Folding the Fold

I will eventually record this - I think it ought to be given as a lecture/talk!

the fold in Jane Austen

As he folded up the letter, she saw her with a sort of anxious parade of mystery fold up a letter. When it was folded up and returned, it was then folded up, sealed and directed with eager rapidity and folded it up in a piece of white paper. Leaning over it with folded arms, and face concealed, a white cotton counterpane, properly folded

distant

extension distance fold skin touch.
no words no words
just fingertips imagine the touch that could happen if reaching to touch could be achieved

fold but not a fold

shadows echoes traces light

writing "the fold"

it's all in a cup of tea

Baroque ... under its rubric are placed a proliferation of mystical experience, the birth of the novel, intense taste for life that grows and pullulates, and a fragility of infinitely varied patterns of movement. It could be located in the protracted fascination we experience in watching waves heave, tumble, and atomise when they crack along an unfolding line being traced along the expanse of a shoreline; in following the curls and wisps of colour that move on the surface and in the infinite depths of a tile of marble; or, as, Proust described, when we follow the ramifying and dilating branches of leaves piled in the concavity of the amber depths of a cup of tea.

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Translator’s forward

A plea for Leibniz xi

The Fold

Leibniz and the Baroque

Gilles Deleuze

Foreword & translation Tom Conely

pli

ployer (later pleier) "to bend, to fold," from L. plicare "to fold, lay"



the image is its own link to a larger version

forever folding in curling skin

folding light