Even though my leg is still infected and I need to continue with the course of antibiotics, I am able to move around a little more freely now that the stitches have been taken out and the skin healed.
After returning home from the 5 day sojourn in the Flinders Medical Centre I have limited myself to walking down Solway Crescent to the Encounter Bay boat ramp. At sunrise the boat ramp is a hive of activity now that the channel has been dredged. Some boats are already returning at 6am--presumably they have dashed out to check their cray (rock lobster) pots, whilst others are going out for a days recreational fishing with their friends.
I have limited myself to photographing the head and tail lights of the parked 4 wheel drives, then I sit at a table for a while watching the boats come and go in the morning sun before returning home for breakfast before I begin to edit this post. In the late afternoon I repeat the walk. Since this walk is not long enough to exercise the poodles Suzanne has been walking them in the morning and the afternoon.
These abstractions are, studies, sketches, or fragmentary, partial or incomplete works. They are partial, a point of view, images strung together in a sequence. They are part of a whole that is variable and always in process. A paratactic composition that is without any centre or stable position if you like.
Romantic fragment poem is presented in Friedrich Schlegel’s “Atheneum Fragments” (Fr. 24) as a partial whole— either a remnant of something once complete and now broken or decayed (eg., Ancient Greek literature) or the beginning of something that remains unaccomplished, unfinished, or always becoming.
This is an intermediary zone between the architectonic organization of the system, which assigns to each part a place in a pre-existing structure, and the empirical domain, which spells out and imitates the indefinite nature of the world, in the manner of a cabinet of curiosities or random collection of objects. This is an arrangement that does not compose but juxtaposes.