Opper Zaman

Patterns 

Adopting a system 

An ever-expanding palace of functioning thoughts 

 

The idea of storytelling differs from its different modes, the modes meaning unlike
musical modes (Although it is somewhat relevant) but the means or a genre it is
using to describe a series of situations to perhaps find a way to etch into
someone’s psyche.  

The idea of gaining trust, is somewhat more intimate than just to verbalize a
thought into someone’s ear. An object built in front of you can gain your trust,
but there is a politics that goes with it; you may ask, “Is it safe for me to
go under it?” or “Is it going to start moving?”. Perhaps it is not just the trust,
but it is doing something else there. 

 

 

Motif Position Process 

 

 

Modes helps to create intimacy; Modes are positions. 

To think from the position of a writer, whether they are writing a fiction or a biography this person is
analyzing, breaking down a concept, a narrative or an individual into numerous
alphabets constructing layers upon layers forming words, into sentences, into
paragraphs trying to sell their perception to us. Since this writer is an
individual with their own perception, with their own walk of life and their ways of seeing things we are reading their construction through our perception. What is the relation between us and them? We are at a constant battle,
filtering perceptions in order to give a shit. 

Positions are incremental; The idea of Positioning allows me to step in and out of
different modes to act as an inhibitor like an agent (chemical) interfering in
a process. Positioning becomes a need or an agency to investigate the sentience
of methods and the means used, to detach the narrative from the safety net of
abstraction. Perhaps “trust” as I say is the backbone in that it
allows for someone to position themselves to share an intimacy, a “Just” method
to be acknowledged by the presence of something in front of them. 

Experimenting with the idea of positioning allows me to take stances, a means to detach the
self as I know myself to be. It generates voices in my ability to be perceived
through a filter or a “Mask” in the way I conceptualize the framework of genres;
this idea helps to generate a vernacular from which to take stances and work
with or understand the politics and the agency of: 

A Visionary 

The false Prophet 

The Truth Sayer 

The Forensic 

The Technical 

A Code Writer 

 

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The process is an ability to identify methods, and to insert a logic in the way the
Modes use “positions”. The process looks past the limitations of a superficial
reading of the work and activates the contents through understanding the behaviors
of materials and media which meditates the real and imagined sentience of
methods that are active in the experience. 

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Can You Hear it? 

 

Multiplying?  

 

Getting stronger?  

 

Can you make the sound with your mouth?  

 

If reinforcements had a sound, what would it be?  

 

Take a piece of wet cloth in your hands and try to squeeze all the water out by twisting the cloth in between your hands, as you do this
look at the very center of the swirl. Can you see the water dripping down from
under and on the top, it is as dry as it can be under the circumstance? Try to
visualize the sound as much as you can, if it does make a noise at the very
center what would it be? 

 

Close your eyes and press your eyelids hard against your
eye head.  

 

Can you hear it?  

 

Now,  

 

Can you think of reinforcement in terms of sound?  

 

It is almost as similar as to the sound that your dried
worked up hands will make if you squeeze your hands together tightening the
finger’s in the gaps between them.  

 

It is almost as if you can hear the concrete getting hard in between
the gaps of the hessian.  

 

Like masses chanting something sacred, for a cause  

 

Voices in a protest  

 

Rituals for a cult  

 

Populate 

 

Multiply  

White noise 

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The process is ceaseless, its relentless like a predator’s pursuit for its prey or an athlete’s
endurance. There is something interesting in adopting a way to translate “what
stuff does” in working modes, may that be through writing, working with sounds,
installations or moving images and using these means of vernaculars to find
patterns or interconnectedness. Inspecting or becoming curious about what
social relations might mean in this context, where ethics, morality and the
time invested in the process might play out in non-human forms. 

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The idea of linking motifs to sustain pattern of thoughts are used in the method of “Loci” invented
by the ancient Greeks, where the word “Loci” is translated as “Places”, which is
a memory tool used to link an imaginary location such as a “Palace” or a
familiar place with mnemonic images to remember any information by creating a
mental pattern. The mental pattern once properly rehearsed can be used to link
information. By linking the thought with a detail for example, a room, or an
appliance or furniture inside the palace, creating a vivid image associated with
the detail and hence reinforcing the memory. So, when needed to trace the thought
one can take the journey in the order of which the palace is designed and trace
the thought by taking a walk in the exact order. 

Walk 

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The essence of this gets translated into motifs that are inserted as modes of connotations into the
works I have been making. Once a brick defines an agency in relation to where
it is put it can be altered or changed the way it is read once the Mode changes
it's positioning. So does a “Rose” or a “Flag” or a pattern 

 

So, 

Does this shift in understanding, the act of reusing the motifs in different contexts
make the process an expanding palace? 

 

Perhaps an Ever-Expanding Palace; Like a Meme, wouldn’t you say? 

 

 

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