Cesare Davolio

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Are or were?

While writing about Gisèle’s things I’ve struggled with verbs. These are her things, or these were her things? In Grammar, Lydia Davis writes about this dilemma. As her father is dying, she wonders which verb describes his state of being:

Now, during the time he is dying, can I say, “This is where he lives”? If someone asks me, “Where does he live?” should I answer, “Well, right now he is not living, he is dying”?

Lydia Davis. Grammar Questions: The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis, (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009), 12.

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My drawing and a quote by Lydia Davis from The Warp and Weft of Memory, an online narrative by Renée Turner. The work explores the wardrobe of Gisèle d’Ailly van Waterschoot van der Gracht, and the ways in which it reflects her life, work, and various histories through textiles and clothing.

See the project at: Warpweftmemory.net

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Drawing for The Warp and Weft of Memory. Online narrative and magical archive by Renée Turner. Www.warpweftmemory.net The work explores the wardrobe of Gisèle d’Ailly van Waterschoot van der Gracht, and the ways in which it reflects her life, work, and various histories through textiles and clothing.

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-A Glove apart Drawing for The Warp and Weft of Memory. Online narrative and magical archive by Renée Turner. Www.warpweftmemory.net The work explores the wardrobe of Gisèle d’Ailly van Waterschoot van der Gracht, and the ways in which it reflects her life, work, and various histories through textiles and clothing. 

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My eyes glide across labels: costumes, kousen, taschen, chaussettes, and moccasins. Hovering between naming and narration, her taxonomical reflections jump from German to Dutch, French, and English. Objects appear to speak different languages to her. Maybe one garment brought her back to Austria; another had associations with Bergen; and another placed her somewhere on the plains of Oklahoma. I’m not a linguist or neurologist, but maybe if you’re a polyglot (which I’m also not), memories occupy different linguistic spaces of the brain. After all, stories are formed through the marriage of time and words. Temporality, languages, and landscapes shaped Gisèle’s neural architecture. Her taxonomies are an encoded map, but as an outsider it is one without a legend. - My drawing made for The Warp and Weft of Memory. The work explores the wardrobe of Gisèle d’Ailly van Waterschoot van der Gracht, and the ways in which it reflects her life, work, and various histories through textiles and clothing. www.warpweftmemory.net

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Gisèle sometimes labeled her shoe boxes with descriptive evaluations: "pointy shoes", "very pointy shoes", and "very, very pointy shoes". At other times, she labeled them according to their colour such as brown, burgundy, or off-white. And some boxes have labels that note their type such as "moccasins" or "exotic slippers".

Here is another extract from Renee’ fascinating project The Warp and Weft of Memory, an online narrative and exhibition, launch and opening 24th August at the Castrum Peregrini Foundation, Amsterdam.

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"What to do with the stuff in between, the silken thread that loosely weaves together folders, labels, textiles, stories, photographs, notes, drawings . . . the list is endless. Gisèle’s horror vacui, Latin for fear of the void, kept her spinning connections from seashells to paintings and pantyhose. Maybe this was no horror vacui, but an understanding that the public and the private are seamless." - Drawing part of a series made for The Warp and Weft of Memory, by Renée Turner, an online narrative and exhibition, launch and opening 24th August at the Castrum Peregrini Foundation, Amsterdam.

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"The race against the moths will not be won. Her sealskin moccasins, red silk kimono, green woollen vest, the fur collar on her asymmetrical coat and almost all of her sweaters have been and continue to be ingested, digested, and excreted out as dust.” Drawing I made for Renée Turner, The Warp and Weft of Memory, an online narrative and exhibition, launch and opening August 24th 2018 at the Castrum Peregrini Foundation, Amsterdam 

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‘I RUN THE HILLS’

7/7 parts Comic   A Love story at the beginning or end of time

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‘I RUN THE HILLS’

6/7 parts Comic   A Love story at the beginning or end of time

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5/7 parts Comic   A Love story at the beginning or end of time

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‘I RUN THE HILLS’

4/7 parts Comic   A Love story at the beginning or end of time

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‘I RUN THE HILLS’

3/7 parts Comic   A Love story at the beginning or end of time

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‘I RUN THE HILLS’

2/7 parts Comic   A Love story at the beginning or end of time

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‘I RUN THE HILLS’

1/7 parts Comic  A Love story at the beginning or end of time

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