conVERSEverse {
aurèce vettier: var (mount dialogue, line 6);
// triangulated dialogue technique: each line from the poem prompts ES (Elisabeth Sweet) to create a dataset of resonant texts, quotes & questions. PM (Paul Mouginot) uses the resonant dataset as input for his dialogue with the poem, making invisible connections within aurèce vettier’s Potential Herbariums ecosystem visible.
“you are not what you used to be anymore.”
PM: The quote “Far within me, where the memory of what I am is still unclouded, a little child is waking up and making an old man’s mask weep” is one of the ones that struck me most in Mount Analogue, perhaps because I sometimes feel like an old man whispering in a child’s ear in a 35-year-old man’s body.
I really enjoy embarking on adventures roadtrips, unusual encounters and explorations. I then digest all this in two ways: on the one hand, by dreaming, and on the other, by trying to represent these dreams using tailor-made artificial intelligence algorithms.
As I see it, this work of introspection has gradually transformed me over the years. It’s a bit like crossing a forest, or crossing a storm, to use Haruki Murakami’s words in Kafka on the Shore.
We’re constantly confronted with difficult environments and significant events, and each of us develops our own tools for getting through them, but deep down, everything is already present within us, and all these tools often act as enhancers, percolators.
}