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Torben Ulrich's note:
4. Black rope on rice paper, red ball. Black and
red inks from Japan blending well with Japanese rice paper. Testing
other inks; don't work so well. Testing other paper doesn't work
well, lesser degrees of absorption. Rope (from boating stores) to
be fully dipped day before, then dried, redipped on day of action,
for every sheet of paper.
Narrow parabola of skipping sometimes on one leg, if no parabola
seen: marks from one hand-held rope, following through a serving
motion: serving as in initiating, engendering play, but also in
sense of preserving what has been initiated, persevering in the
playful (differently than the conventionally binary division
win/lose).
Again, if read in other ways, say, gender terms, Rorschach style,
black strokes of rope may of course be seen as figurations of male
and females organs, energies, movement of sperm and so on, red ball
as ovum, genesis, growth etc. But don't get stuck.
Main point: ball, lines meeting in joyous, open motion, no
splitting, no (final, certified) results.
(Number refers to this note, not the work's reference number. These notes can be read on their own and also as an ensemble, or set
of concentric circles that can be read both from outside in and inside out. See the full Notes on Balligraphies.)
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(See thoughts from Torben Ulrich about some of his works in Notes on Balligraphies.)
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