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book pages and liquid typewriter corrector
W 87" H 52"
2000

(part of this work belongs to mauro herlitzka's collection)

produced in collaboration with poet igor sergei klinki.
original pages of the eric fromm's book entitled 'to have or to be' (spanish translation & printing, fondo de cultura económica, mexico, 1975, "tener o ser?").
a great amount of the original text was deleted using liquid typewriter corrector in order to recreate a new intended poetic text with a reduced set of remaining words.

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Prepretext

to vanish in texts
to show up in losses
to track the smoke
to give the void
to erase the remains
to deserve the not known
to discriminate the shadow
to condemn the purpose
to arrange the nothingness
to accept the unacceptable
to drift the words
to burn the concepts
to return the shame
to strip the ownership
to seduce the moment
to recede until concerning
to change the suffering
to emend the past
to charge the doors
to detach the body
to rub out the future
to publish the hell
to fight the notion
to blur the power
to force the minute
to quest the found
to convert the dread
to wait the present
to conquer the cinders
to betray the hatred
to stop the sense
to touch the variety
to honour the wind
to forget the being
to love the sin
to rhyme the truth
to point the light
to blend the world
to write the freedom
to ignore the time
to shake the infinity
to expiate the mercy
to overcome the silence
to methodize the uncertainty
to translate the unseen
to delay the death
to be the steps

igor sergei klinki
(from the catalogue of the exhibition where 
'o' was showed for the first time )