# 1
MORAM DA GO NAPRAVAM*
(the workaday divider)
by building fences
to connect people
fences joining and dividing
protecting and preventing
to draw borderlines
saving and limiting
to make from one space more spaces
'In the sweat of thy face shalt
thou build and break down the boundaries, the fences,
till thou return unto the earth, which is one;
for this thou wast taken: for dust thou art
and art is dust.'
(The Book of Sighs)
To build a fence in the sweat of the face to demonstrate how easy it is to divide.
August 2, 2003 in Libušín
* in Macedonian: “I must do it.” This was the only thing I said when it became necessary to somehow reply to the growing fury of the people on the festive Mayday 2002 walk.
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'THE SEA' Plasy Monastery
Whenever I look through the thousands of Polaroid negatives from the passport photographs I've collected since 1993, I cannot believe that I am looking at the same faces I see in the street everyday. From all those faces shines the light of momentary concentration on the better part of the essence of their personalities and the desire to let this be captured as characteristic.
"The Sea"—it was one of five parts of the installation Alltogether (1995), an installation that meant everything to me. The internal screaming within the unbelievable spaces of Santini's ambivalent architecture (the monastery in Plasy), architecture that accelerates the anticipation of good or evil.
But always spiritual.
The sunlight swept like foam from the back of the room over the surface of the Polaroid negatives (16,000 faces) throughout the afternoon. The faces of the negatives, warmed by the sun, curled, lifted and again layered down as the heat of the sun moved on to their neighbours. The floor stirred once a day for a whole month (whenever the sun was shining, and it mostly was) as a wave that crested slowly, almost unnoticeably, but when calmly observed, how surprisingly quickly it brought to mind the motion of the Universe.*
February 2, 2001 in Libušín
*The fact that if you make a negative from a Polaroid negative you will not get a positive is also very symptomatic.