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I didn’t take any pictures. I
photographed the shed a year later,
when the texts written with white crayon on the
greyish-brownish
rough planks almost faded away, became hardly legible. |
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Element of elements. A space of mind. A shed. A head. Whole of the universe. So run around it. See every single side. Left. Right. Back. Front. And in reverse. Climb the blue ladder. Watch from above. (Clouds of moss on the starless sky of tar.) Don’t dig a ditch. Ground’s dry and hard. It’s useless effort, don’t even start. Interior? What’s in there? Silent secret? Dark mystery? Open the door and enter Let in emotions, people, noise and glare You will get stuck there as here you were. Better look carefully through slits and holes, Better imagine, guess, consider, conjure… |
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A year ago the text was sharp
though it didn’t shine, didn’t
glare… I propped the ladder against the shed, a bit
higher than the
shed and still blue – in the past we used it to climb
the attic,
and the trapdoor was painted blue, too. I don’t know
what I write
about it for, the blueness of the ladder was of no
importance – it
could only either repel or attract; most probably it did
both,
because only a few people decided to climb it and see the
clouds
of moss. Around
the lawn in
front of the house I placed “boxes for books”. Not
regularly, in
groups of two and three. I dug into the ground thin
trunks of wilted
hazel and fixed
to them
wooden crates painted not garishly: bark brown, warm
grey,
navy blue, creamy white. The blue ladder suited them
well… In each
box I put one book. “Treatises on wood” were near the
chopping
site. “Treatises on water” by the old very small
waterhole hidden
among tall grass blades.
“Treatises on earth and metal” at the huge ash tree,
not high
above the ground, so one had to squat. “Treatises on
fire” near
the garage where the central stove was hidden.
“Treatises on
plastic” a bit outside and not in the wooden crate but
in the
plastic one, however not on a
plastic tube. And “Treatises on air” were hovering
in the boxes hung on a perch fixed between two trees. People came. Friends, and our friends’ friends whom we didn’t know. They looked around. They read a little. They listened to the concert of elementary music (or music of elements) for recorder and drums. They went away before the dusk. Right after their disappearing I collected the books not to let the element of moisture do them any harm. The next day I dismantled the “boxes for books”. I left only the perch, I don’t know why… Just then I realised I had taken no pictures. Let the momentariness be praised. |