a friend once told me that he wished the word "slippage" was around when he was at art school. whether he thought that him and his fellow art students would relish bandying the word about, or whether he thought it could describe perfectly what was going on I'm not sure.words tend to travel in groups and waves, sometimes it is difficult to resist their push and pull. it is always diverting to create enthusiasms of one's own for certain words and phrases, then entertaining when they seem to catch on...
art writing is filled with school-yard crazes of vocabulary... and there are regular culprits... my all time favourite is "perhaps." one has to be rather esoteric to pull it off.
it certainly seems that art writing is often an attempt to describe the indescribable, invisible or barely discernible... or an exercise in conceptual or philosophical gymnastics... or is it attempt to conjure and cajole significance?
art writing as puzzle?
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