The initial idea for a project about waiting came from exploring my making and thinking process as an artist. I identified in my making and my written or verbal articulation of the making process a series of actions and still times. The still times are either those in which I am unable to make or times in which— even if I am making— I feel the
I see the intuition of imperceptible moves with in my head as the substance of this interval …“ The interval is virtual, incorporeal. Yet it has substance, it is palpable”( Manning, 2012,24) work is not progressing or that I
Because the interval is in between the no longer and the not yet, it is a space of potential. This gap creates the opportunity of changing direction and the possibilities are multiple. Once movement
“ The interval is a connection machine. The interval reminds us that the body-world( in recombination) is a technology. It is a technology insofar as it is capable of accessing the connecting machine, of creating the movements of thought, that extend the interval across space-time”.( Manning, 2012, 24)
has began the potential gradually diminishes as one favours one direction. When an actual movement is complete, once an“ actual occasion " has served its purpose it disappears but the interval remains potentially active for the next movement( Mannin, 209, 20).
When one experiences large gaps between creative movements. It is easy to become impatient and lose faith in the work. But as Blanchot points out, Patience is the
endurance of impatience, its acceptance and welcome, the accord which wants still to persist in the most extreme confusion.( Blanchot, 1989, 127)
am unable to successfully articulate it verbally or in writing. These times cause me a great deal of restlessness and anxiety and I see them as times in which I am literally“ waiting” for the work to emerge.
Thinking about these waiting times brought to mind other waits and this led me to want to explore waiting in general