A thousand hours of reflection Mille heures de réflexion — 2002 (sculp.) u.w. ; priv. coll. ; coated metal wire, continuously-lit bulb, 220 V current, electrical socket ; 100 × 100 × 160 cm g ill. p.119 A This is an antinatural brain whose hemisphe
works, Untitled, 1990, which at first sight is quite unprepossessing. It consists of a bunch of coloured sticks, like those used in the game Mikado,1 strewn on the ground. Looking more closely, however, it can be seen that rather than being scattered around at random they actually form two groups, one of which is a replica of the other. This way of imposing order on disorder, like a patient conspiracy, is what fascinated The Nice Guy, who also set about ordering chaos through a drastic process of creation that entailed both rigour and concentration. C [1] In fact they were toothpicks, but my memory turned them into Mikado sticks. I think the work is the better for this. F bricolage, constraint, Infinite Tangle, knowledge, Light Board, Tomogram of a Lying Brain, Where Da Hell Are We Going?
res are enantiomorphic in their circumvolutions. The Nice Guy twisted two wires coated in white plastic as symmetrically as possible to form multiple swirls, figures and mathematical symbols. The wires are stuck directly into an electrical socket so that a bulb at the centre of the brain is continuously lit. B Etymology: For a thousand hours, i.e. the working life of the bulb, a duplicated image of chaos is projected across the exhibition space like a huge Rorschach image. A thousand hours—in other words more than forty-one days—might be A thousand years Un millier d’années — 2006 (ph. mont.) ed. of 5 + 2 a. p. ; photograthe lifespan of a tenacious butterfly or fly, phic prints, plexicollage on dibond ; 100 × 100 cm g pl. IX p.17 A This is a photomonbut in the end it does not represent a lot of tage of pictures of birthday cakes downloaded from the Internet. time for thinking. B Origin: The Nice Guy was greatly impressed by one of Tom Friedman’s The sum of the years celebrated is exactly a thousand. B Syntax: The
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