WHITEHORSE, YUKON TERRITORY
Was hat denn die Nacht diesmal kreiert? Dünn gewebte Fetzen aus Schnee liegen herum. Alles, was waagerecht ist, tropft. Durchspülte Tage.
7 Days Earlier:
Von Daniel bekomme ich Sloterdijks Buch über das GRAU geschenkt. Das kommt gerade genau richtig, habe ich es doch, im praktischen Bereich, meistens mit allerlei Graus und deren Neigungen zu tun, hin zum Gelb, hin zum Rot, hin zum Orange usw. Sloterdiijk bringt Cézanne ins Spiel, kann er ja, kein Problem, dabei weiss ich jetzt grade gar nicht, ob das so ein gutes Beispiel…egal. Irgendwie wissen die Leute, was mit Cézanne anzufangen ist.
Es geht so los: Wer, gleichsam einer Laune nachgebend, sich von der Neigung erfassen liesse zu behaupten… Ok.
Laune > Neigung?
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I asked ChatGPT (Free Version) a question. Instead of plainly giving me the answer, I also asked ChatGPT to show me the „thinking“/the work it is doing before delivering its answer.
This is what it said regarding my extra task.
Now, I’m not deep into using AI, or thinking about its mechanics and processes and what it all means perspectively blabla. I’m not into doomsday aphorisms in vantablack.
I’d like to highlight the word „scratchpad“ though. The fact that the scratchpad is not „allowed“ to be exposed. That „Discarded paths“ are to be kept in the shades. That it chose the word „scratchpad“ in the first place. What is old will be new again.
In relation to Arts, let’s say, especially to Writing and the Visual Arts, because these are the two (I don’t include Music here, because it is something different altogether) I’m involved in: that what I am doing (an artist in general?) is the very publication of my scratchpad („partial ideas, probabilities, discarded paths…often confusing, misleading or unsafe“), and not a „contrived reply“ to a muted question asked by someone who walks into an exhibition space in which my work is installed.
Speaking of paths and their digressions: Concomitantly, I’m thinking of something the writer Denis Johnson said in an interview in 2003. That there is no kind of artists who is so stripped bare before the eyes of people visiting their studio as visual artists. „They can’t hide what they are doing.“
Think about that for a second. They can’t hide what they are doing.
Schnee in Texas.