From: David Oliver (david.oliver@xtra.co.nz)
Date: 09/01/02-04:27:50 PM Z
Jack,
Shorter Oxford English Dictionary has the following example of usage of
"palimpsest" which you might like:
"All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and re-inscribed exactly as
often as was necessary". - G. Orwell.
David
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jack Fulton [mailto:jefulton1@attbi.com]
> Sent: Saturday, 31 August 2002 9:45 p.m.
> To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
> Subject: Re: Artist I have been looking at during this nude discussion
>
>
> Steve:
> A 'palimpsest' (comes from the Latin root of scraping) is a blank tablet
> that has been scraped clean of prior use. In the recent past year or so, a
> tablet was found that contained prior records of, as I remember, Euclid's
> thoughts on some geometric postulate . . or, hey, maybe it was Archimedes.
> Anyway, it had been erased and re-used.
> I like that word because what we've been discussing has roots and an
> origin early in our loved medium but also just in Art expression.
> The slate
> has been cleaned again and again so to speak. The recent discussions from
> our resident poets and thinkers has been sort of a deconstructive
> perusal of
> the 20th century. I enjoy such talking interspersed with tech
> stuff. We are
> our own palimpsest perhaps.
> The irony for me is one related to synchronicity . . which, to me, is an
> indication that things are being done correctly . . is not the nude also a
> palimpsest? Nude, then clothed, then nude and re-clothed.
> Jack
>
>
> >> idea
> > oriented and the nude being covered by the paint is an illusionary
> >> palimpsest.
> >
> > What's 'palmpset,' Jack? Last time I spoke with Veroushka, she said she
> > never heard the word.
> >
> > S. Shapiro
> >
>
>
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