The start of some thoughts about what we do or a conversation starter

In a email to Andy Parker, Steve wrote the following:

Me and Kate went to Brantwood (Ruskins house) recently and infused and enthused ourselves with Ruskin - he is a good thinker in that everything is of and in Life - it's Hiediegger and Dazien and being of and in and to hand in the world which is interesting as nobody seems to say this- they look much more to Niezche for the roots of being and time but I think it's much more Ruskin -,although he is very situated within the world -.where as the post structuralists need their seperation to make the lived visible.  Me and Kate are arguing about becomings at the moment . We have coined a new phrase which is "Propositional Drawing " this is an expansion of the process of drawing without the materiality of the mark - practice as a conceptual drawing process - it comes from Ruskins ideas that drawing can only ever be a verb - a process of seeing rather than the materialistion of a materiality - the mark as a thought moment? what do you think ? it felt at the moment of inception that we were onto something important - but then Like Ruskin I thought that the world had perhaps become too connected and I was mad.

Andy replied: 

In relation to the lovely paragraph of your thoughts

Drawing - linked to the word withdrawing - to pull out, retrieve.  I always think of wire - the process of making wire is called drawing i think - no beginning or end, continuous - never stopping and starting, just broken and rejoined.  I like to think of factories making tubes and pasta and glass and sausages - a never ending stream that doesnt stop or start, but is cut - the making is continuous.
The idea of A DRAWING is an art oddity - something incorrectly named, but now so synonymous its impossible to unimagine it as a thing that was done.

I'm afraid I have not come across Dazien, but do think there is a link to what I have remembered about Heidegger about ideas of challenging and enframing, which is a beginning of a becoming, i think.  I thought a lot about another of his ideas - the standing reserve, as it seemed to me this was the state of being in the world where objects (and people) were almost invisible - the ideal state of mindless systems, consumption etc.  The only point outside of this is through obsolescence - my passion- which gives people and things the greatest possible amount of visibility (at a point of total undesirability).  I would want to see both sides acknowledged to experience a real, full life, and also to experience a real sense of time.  Does that make any sense?  Sorry - just finished watching the Olympic opening and I feel insane.

I contributed to a presentation about 'archaeology as practice' as a way of getting the folks involved to reevaluate what they did from a perspective other than artifact and information.  I had a heated argument with the artist in residence from the dig who spent her time doing block prints of trowels and welly boots.