Encyclopaedia of Unseen Time
To select the colours for this watercolour wait until night, turn out the light and draw out from the watercolour box three watercolours.
Turn on the light and note down the page number as the time now seen. Repeat the above guidelines two times more and complete two further watercolours.
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Encyclopaedia of Unseen Time
To select the colours for this watercolour wait until night, turn out the light and draw out from the watercolour box three watercolours.
Turn on the light and note down the page number as the time now seen. Repeat the above guidelines two times more and complete two further watercolours.
page Tuesday 26th Sept ’95, 8.44pm
Encyclopaedia of Unseen Time
To select the colours for this watercolour wait until night, turn out the light and draw out from the watercolour box three watercolours.
Turn on the light and note down the page number as the time now seen. Repeat the above guidelines two times more and complete two further watercolours.
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Encyclopaedia of Stairs
Intoxicated by fatigue, she grabs hold of the rail and slides giddily upon the step. No further can the beating, blaring city entice her to pursue the echoes ahead. The city’s garble plays medley with her thoughts: she’s forgotten whether she was desperately seeking or instead chasing away.
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Encyclopaedia of Stairs
Steps descend: a child sits beside her and says … “I know exactly what’s happened – I read about it in the Encyclopaedia of Stairs – and these stairs in particular are notorious. Have you heard, shall I tell you?” Bewildered, fatigued – she listens.
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Encyclopaedia of Stairs
“On page five it’s written that at the foot of these stairs – near the river below – there waited a woman. She waited and waited, through the night’s darkness and cold, mist so thick, through to the day’s sunlight that follows. She waited for Hope.
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Encyclopaedia of Stairs
“When One day – hearing steps descending, presuming them to be Hope – she hastened, ascending: but at each step the stairs extended, never taking her from whence the echoes came. She fell here, fatigued, between expectation and disappointment.”
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Encyclopaedia of Stairs
“… My friend says this is a stupid story – fiction, not fact. But upon passing I recognised these stairs as those described in the Encyclopaedia; and upon descending – what luck – my speculations found you just as described. One day I’ll find the Missing, confiscated, Expectations: well maybe; One day.”
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fig. 5 – library: Princess Bridge staircase, Melbourne
Encyclopaedia of Movie Plots
Closer, just a little closer so that I might whisper to you a secret; a secret about a movie plot banished from the City Square. A plot tenuously placed at the juncture of geometric planes taut by touching while falling apart. Industrial geometry lifted from the City’s grid, made tragic. At 5:00pm, amidst these tumbled rays of
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steel, there occurred a passage to a room. Lovers, the loveless and the disappointed would gather in this room; billowing it with speech as sensuous as the juncture of planes. They struggled as their speech sought other paths through the city: paths which render the complexity of human actions. Paths of discussion
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effused with memory, where contradictions aren’t shunned. Paths which breath: junctures that form while falling apart. The Council condemned this struggle as not ‘civic’ enough, and, you perhaps know the rest of the movie. You perhaps don’t know that somebody stole one night, after 5:00pm, and installed a
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plaque in the City Square. It reads: for lovers, the loveless and the disappointed: a whisper. The council put up a reward for information regarding the theft; yet the night was never returned. As for the plaque, unbeknownst to council, it remains: a memory; a whisper.
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[Deatails]
– fig. 5:00pm — library: public sculpture ‘Vault’, 1980, by Ron Robertson-Swann
Watercolour 1
– shelves full of tumbled books
Encyclopaedia of a Movie
room. We’ll pan in just as you’re paying for the raining computer. Then you’re to enter the room and place this raining computer next to the computer calculating the quantity of surfaces touched by the sun at given moments of the day. Now, this is the last take for the day and we all want to go home, so don’t — whatever you do — take the raining computer into the room where the computer calculating the various degrees of loneliness resides. And when you
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[details]
– room for emotion number 1
– room for emotion number 1
– room for emotion number 1
– room for emotion number 1
– fig. 100
– fig. 100 – library: corner of Swanston Street & Bourke Street, Melbourne
photo: Carl Warner
photo: Carl Warner
photo: Carl Warner
Encyclopaedia of a Moment’s Evidence
a spatial probability edition 1993
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List of Illustrations
Moment …… Page
12:56pm …… 1
12:57pm …… 2
12:58pm …… 3
12:59pm …… 4
12:00pm …… 5
12:01am …… 6
12:02am …… 7
12:03am …… 8
12:04am …… 9
12:05am …… 10
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Moment 12:00pm
At 12:01, she hurriedly enters room A in urgent search for the evidence of moment 12:00 pm. She finds it.
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[entrance through lowest room, A, listed anti-clockwise]
room A
room B
room C
room D
room E
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Moment 12.00pm
At 12.01, assured that the evidence of moment 12.00 pm was in room B, she entered, but too late. The evidence had been wiped away.
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[entrance through lowest room, B, listed anti-clockwise]
room B
room C
room D
room E
room A
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Moment 12.00pm
If evidence of the moment 12.00pm existed, it would be found in room C. She enters room C at 12.01 and she finds no evidence of moment 12.00 pm.
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[entrance through lowest room, C, listed anti-clockwise]
room C
room D
room E
room A
room B
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Moment 12.00pm
With trepidation, at 12:01 she entered room D. Evidence of moment 12:00 pm was not found — but lived.
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[entrance through lowest room, D, listed anti-clockwise]
room D
room E
room A
room B
room C
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Moment 12.00pm
At 12:01 she entered room E and without remorse, remembered moment 12:00 pm.
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[entrance through lowest room, E, listed anti-clockwise]
room E
room A
room B
room C
room D
[square room central watercolour]
library No. 5
of words
without meaning
lost of all feeling
[top circular room]
words of friendship
[left circular room]
words of counsel
[lower circular room]
words read
[right circular room]
words of love
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[square room with window, without a door, in upper circular room with door]
that soothe, sometimes
[square room with window, without a door, in lefthand circular room with door]
words too painful to hear
[square room with window, without a door, in lower circular room with door]
words which fall, fumble and touch so close
[square room with window, without a door, in righthand circular room with door]
words barely said in return
Truth’s Spatial Probability
Unbeknownst to him, for he was daydreaming out the window. Truth stepped into Room B and loitered there a little. While he roused from his dreams to again take grasp of reality — Truth, undetected by him, slid from Room B with the ease of time and hid in Room A.
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– Room A
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Truth’s Spatial Probability
He rushed from Room B into Room C in desperate search for Truth. During his scurry, he did not notice Truth’s narrow escape from Room C to Room A at the moment of his entrance.
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– Room B
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Truth’s Spatial Probability
Having been told that Truth was in Room A, he quietly entered in an unobtrusive manner so not to frighten and cause Truth to scamper. But upon this cautious entrance he discovered a fig: that Truth was in fact not in Room A but Room B.
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– Room C
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Truth’s Spatial Probability
While resting in Room A pondering his next move, he heard scandalous rumours concerning Truth’s entrapment in Her Room. Fearing to dare enter Her Room, he thought it wise to instead wait in Room B where the view was more pleasant.
~ 5 ~
– Her Room
A Pictorial Knowledge
Publication
1993
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Spelling Mistakes
List of Illustrations
Mistake … Page
truce … 1
trepidation … 2
timidity … 3
trust … 4
mistake … 5
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Spelling Mistakes
~ truce ~
[1]
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Spelling Mistakes
~ trepidation ~
[2]
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Spelling Mistakes
~ timidity ~
[3]
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Spelling Mistakes
~ trust ~
[4]
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Spelling Mistakes
~ to never be mistaken ~
[5]
Children’s Encyclopedia
fig. 7 Shows the plan of a house’s parental chambers, in a common style of the early 1970s.
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– Encyclopedic Library level A
– E. Library level B
– Father’s room
– Mother’s room
– passage of distrust
– fig. 7
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Children’s Encyclopaedia
fig. 7 The passage way, while often crossed, always remained as a barrier.
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– E. Library level B
– Father’s room
Mother’s room
– passage of deceit
– fig. 7
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Children’s Encyclopaedia
fig. 7 The loss of this encyclopaedia on either level A of B formed another barrier.
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– Encyclopaedic Library Level A
– Level B
– fig. 7
A complex of seven rooms in which six of the rooms circle a central seventh room. Entry to any of the six outer rooms, even from one to another, is through the seventh central room. The only openings are doors onto the central room. There are no windows through which to look outside the spatial complex.
Pictorial Knowledge
She was jealous […] of her.
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Pictorial Knowledge
[…] instead of admiring they despised her. […]
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Pictorial Knowledge
[…] her self-discredit went unchecked.
~ 7 ~
Encyclopaedia of Waiting
Melbourne. Neither the tram’s lateness nor the drizzle outside manage to impede her arrival at the movie theatre behind Spring Street on time. With extra time, in fact, to muse — or pretend, along with other lone viewers — amongst the film posters and news before ushered into the ‘plot room’ for the start of the movie.
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– stares [alongside stairs]
– pl … [clockwise: plot room]
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[anticlockwise]
Encyclopaedia of Waiting
She is eager to see this movie — allured by its acclaim as being “.. a seductive filmic annotation of our timeless plot — ‘the present’ — around which falls the un-beguiling social and political mechanisms of circumstance”.
After seating herself she casts a quick but curious glance around — feeling secure among what were obviously likeminded people surrounding here.
The lights go down.
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– ro …
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Encyclopaedia of Waiting
Her childlike eagerness intensifies as the opening credits appear, though only to plummet in despair as grows a paralysing recognition. This is the wrong movie. This is not the movie she has come to see. This is not a depiction of quantifiable facts on ‘the present’ as expected.
This movie is a love story: worse, still, a rendition of dramatised, tragic love — of discordant desires, unfulfillment and passionate estrangement: the everyday.
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– … om
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Encyclopaedia of Waiting
She expects to see a similar distress in those surrounding her, but as she peers she is disheartened, estranged from those she’d initially surmised likeminded. They are all engrossed as if in accordance with this tragedy: this present.
The is not ‘the present’ she wants — so she waits; waits for her movie to start — for perhaps this is a mistake soon to be rectified: perpetual hope. But the movie continues — as does she, waiting.
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– … ot
