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From: lauf-s
Subject: Re: you blurr extremely well...
I understand 'author's privileges (like artistic license), but I have no idea regarding 'inventing coincidences.' I enjoy noting and utilizing (calendrical) coincidences precisely because they are not my invention, they simply happened (and continue to happen). Deriving or finding (some sort of) meaning from/in coincidences is not the same as inventing coincidences.
You could say that I 'invented' (via artistic license) the term/notion of Reenactment Season -- 14 July to 29 September, but this 'invention' is based on (objective) observations of coincidental events.
[Most of my writing these days is not done with a fountain pen, rather with HTML.]
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invention or interpretation is quite the same .
when you write "Deriving or finding (some sort of) meaning from/in coincidences is not the same as inventing coincidences" i could say that an inventor looks for, or finds data , and that from his interpretation of results( which can be coincidences, eventually) he derives a meaning.
f.i. scientific inventors interpret ( "try to understand and reproduce") physical events.
artists and writers combine (interpret ?) events happening around them coincidentally, accidentally, purposedly : isn't the result ,in their artwork or text, quite the same as an invention ? (just wondering the difference between coincidence and context...)
possibly i could say that from coincidences someone can, or may ,or is authorized (as any author) to invent what he feels compelled to write, with fountain pen, html...
or draw with charcoal.
paste with white glue on a collage
or paint with oil...
And of course the data Otto (you) can interpret , juxtapose or reinvent from the birthdates, deathdates or any other data can produce surprising juxtapositions (coincidences?).
Again: just wondering the difference between coincidence ,juxtaposition, and context...
Coincidental data can also become a visual art work if Otto was a painter pasting clichés he remembers or keeps in his mind, some inside feelings or any visual material seen elsewhere.
Some painters like Dali, Picasso or VanGogh probably decided to make fall simultaneously and/or together (Co-in-cidence) on some canvas a lot of data they found incidentally in their minds.
Writers also invent , create, generate , combine visual signs (text, letters...), make fall those together on a paper or electronic sheet ideas or concepts.
all artists do just that.
Even Cartier Bresson saw falling together in front of his Leica coincidental data. (He didn't produce, just re produce).
good photography is frequently a co-oincidence the photographer must see right on time , when instead a painter or writer can dispose of more time to rearrange the co-incidental events they choose to be present in their final works.
P.
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