«I think I have a
solution or do you have
one?»
«Yes,» I reply, perplexed.
«Well, here you go. You ring
the bell to call the servant,
when she enters, we both throw
ourselves on her and we rip her
face off, so I can wear her face
tonight, instead of mine.
«It is not a very practical
solution,» I reply, «because she
will probably die when she no
longer has a face; someone will
discover the body and we will
both go to jail.
As the child sits in the hammock
he remembers the voice of his
dreams.
«This voice makes me feel sad
in the stomach, it feels like an
iguana trapped inside, jumping
and trying to escape. I know
that this feeling is really a small
voice that cries in the ruin, I am
afraid, the pigs are afraid «
«These pigs do nothing but eat
and sleep and make more pigs.
Then we kill them to make them
carnitas and we put them in
tortillas. Sometimes we get very
sick with carnitas, especially if
they have been dead for a long
time «
It is my opinion, that if I conjured
a perceptible intention in what
has been written so far, it was
to reject interpretation, for I
confess a feeling of exhaustion
with that exerting exercise
which consists in appropriating
everything that one describes.
Worse still, it is an act of
domestication.
So that everyone understands
the objects we capture.
The savagery of the object
must be upheld. It may not
be acceptable to a good
conscience; nor to the political
respectability that today dictate
rules which do not to offend.
The politically correct is much
like airplane meals, which
everyone can consume without
disturbing anyone, tasteless and
safe.
The textual mosaic that we
have just assembled contains
three texts by Leonora, the first
is from the novel The stone
door, the second is from a story
«The Debutante,» and the
third is taken from «A Mexican
fairy tale.» The picture is here,
provisionally sheltered between
one word and another, but at
the same time, the picture is in
other places because it can be
heard through the mosaic of
texts.
Those who try to explain a
picture, a play or an object of art
seek to display the sensation of
a purpose, the object serves for
this or the other, it means this
or that thing. The explanation
orients, runs before us, a way to
avoid the dangerous encounter
with the inexplicable. Another
alternative to the picture is to
admit the risk of that which has
no purpose, that which has no
utilitarian purpose. We set up a
finalist will and let the sensation
of the strange integrate into our
imaginary. But here we have
an imaginary that is placed in
an undetermined region. The
wild object is not really a single
object, well, we certainly talk
about a picture and it is possible
to consider it as a single
object. Imposing a function on
the object limits a freedom of
action. What happens when
the object inflicts a wound on
the imaginary? I admit, in this
way, that we all have one or
several imaginary bodies. An
important issue is that in case
of interrupting the domestication
of the object, we give ourselves
the opportunity to be surprised.
Finally, the wild object, which
would be a way, not to name it
but to imagine a game outside
the functionality, suspends
itself away from the interpreting
machine. We obsessively
impose the verbiage of our
knowledge to cover the absolute
ignorance of the viewer.
Interpretations are part of a
system of power that legitimizes
that small turf defended by
specialists.
«Mr. Ambrose Barbary can
tell you about very interesting
things about the wild beasts
you love so much. He has
undertaken several studies and
is a very cultured man. «A smile
crept into Lobo›s face revealing
his pointed teeth. Lobo gives
Jemima a package, which is
the person referred to in the
previous paragraph. «Once
alone, Jemima opens the lump
... and utters a choked cry: in
her hands, she holds the head
of a cock whose gaze has been
fixed by death. Perhaps the wild
object calls into question our
systems of power, our normality,
our security and desperate self-
sufficiency. I do not interpret,
comment or dialogue, but I
cannot fix the definitive meaning
of the world I read and see.