Working With Fragments

 

Merz 601 by KURT SCHWITTERS (1923)

For the past few months I've been pulling text fragments out of various places. mostly from my diary, which I can use for lyrics. It's an interesting metaphor for our time where we have to stitch together a day based on fragments. Each bit of content we interact with gets immediately sliced into fragments. Imagine you're working on a piece that is so fragile that any tiny movement of air would ruin it. But then you have to work with those forces, which is both interesting and not interesting. It's interesting as a metaphor for flow. But I don't always want to be in a flow. I'd rather work in way where I can make the grid and work within it without interruption. This is why I like the framework of collecting fragments, then later making something from them. I'm more impressed by things that are made over decades and don't succumb to flows, but get constructed from tightly-woven fragments.

MoMM: "Discuss fragments"

Excerpt Library (Art Philosophy and Aesthetics): "Discuss fragments and fragmentation in creativity"