From: Dreamduke-AT-aol.com
Date: Sun, 02 Jun 2002 18:47:57 -0400
Subject: branches: imperfection


the case against perfection is often a difficult one, one deeply rooted in turmoil, stubborn and defiant, like a turnip. but perhaps the notion that "each failure is a masterpiece, a branch of the rhizome," will help us to limber up, and disentangle the arborescence that binds us.

when the isolated and yet connected limbs of a tree become malnourished or diseased, it is the tree itself that is in danger of perishing, for the very source itself will be effected, disastrously.

however, with the rhizome it is more perverse and less hierarchical. each extension, is considered, in part, to be a creative assemblage, such that, any and all striations are regarded in the network of experience to be construction zones: places to situate and build upon, to smooth out and engage with - perhaps it is parlous that the aberrant movements are subsequently sustained and maintained, but let us not forget that trees too, can become rhizomatic.

imperfection is precisely that, that masterpiece, that stick that intensifies the assemblage, the deterritorialized piece, the fragment that is used in addition, in beauty.

in perfection, pieces and fragments are never used. they are never opened up to the possibilities, their cracks incites disposal, not renewal, not reterritorialization. so let us build again, from the remnants, from the branches.







 


imperfection is rhizomatic. perfection is arborescent