LA LINEA: mi cuaderno café 8'36"
A short art film of my brown sketchbook (duration 8'36") On straight lines (after Georges Perec) “If I mend at this rate, it is not impossible...but I may arrive hereafter at the excellency of going even thus: _____________________________________________________ which is a line drawn as I could draw it by a writing-master’s ruler... The right line , the path-way for Christians to walk in! Say Divines, - The emblem of moral rectitude! says Cicero, - - The best line! s ay cabbage planters, - is the shortest line, says Archimedes, which can be drawn from one given point to another. (Lawrence Sterne, Tristram Shandy in Species of Spaces). Also: - The line as in the aesthetics of a human figure (esp. female figure) ie. ‘hay que cuidar la linea’ . - Line of work ie. of whatever stuff an employee is expected to produce or come up with. Generally from Monday to Fridays from 9:00am to 5:00pm in the anglo world or 10:00 to 21:00...
