conVERSEverse {
aurèce vettier: var (mount dialogue, line 3);
// 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.
“the rivers lose their way, and so does our tongue that cannot tell of our deaths”
PM: Over the years, I have found that my daily creative work helps me to understand and appease my relationship with the concept of death. With artificial intelligence, it is now possible to extend an artist’s visual or sound aesthetic beyond death. But even if it is possible, do we really have to do it? Doesn’t death create rarity, as in the case of René Daumal’s unfinished novel, or an artist’s work in general?
Doesn’t the finiteness of our lives allow each of us a period of time in which to develop our work and express ourselves?
Today, a large proportion of my decisions are guided by a form of intuition, by astonishing coincidences that could be called synchronicities, by Carl Jung’s definition. Over time, I’ve come to believe that some of these synchronicities are too subtle to be the simple fruit of absolute chance, and I find it reassuring to think that perhaps this is how the people we love communicate with us beyond death.
}