Railing Codex

BFA in Sculpture + Extended Media, core member of VCD (World Organization of Video Culture Development). An interlocutor, a working professional, an artist.

点要从茫茫的全然中求一座梯。段落都是这样开始的，念头先涌动，推搡着肌体从第一笔第一划行进下去。点顺着格子间的墙边出了门，搭乘电梯降下，再细数铺设步道的砖块和高速路两侧的鸟巢。鸟盯着点，直到转角处下一只鸟续上前一只的视线。点逆着鸟屎的下落跃起——与直立的建筑的海拔比高，与鸟平视，但发现自己并非未来的焦点而未来的景深尚不……绝不可知。（作为点而言，可以折返吗？会有折返吧。不过曾经回过头的针脚更结实？）点裹着鸟屎下落。时间铁轨漫向无穷过往和无穷前方。离线的点继续行进：丈量轻钢龙骨的长度，刺入文件的厚度，在间隔两米的真空里痉挛逗留。描，描写有限；截，截获时长；完，完不完之满。戛然而止的点确定了轨迹，从全然之中裁出可以抓握踏踩的复数的阶，让原不存在的梯出现。

Full stop wants to find a ladder in the vast expanse of totality. Paragraphs always begin this way: ideas gush forth, paddling their way forward with the first stroke. Full stop follows the walls of a cubicle and makes its exit. It descends an elevator and carefully counts both the bricks along the sidewalk and birds’ nests along the highway. A bird keeps staring at full stop until another bird emerges from around the corner, taking over its gaze. Full stop leaps upwards in defiance of the bird’s downward-falling droppings—levelling up to the erect buildings and coming eye-to-eye with the birds before realizing that it is not at the focal point of the future and the future’s depth remains un … forever unknowable. (Can a full stop return? It must have returned. Weren’t backstitches stronger?) Full stop plunges down, wrapped in bird droppings. The railing of time extends endlessly into the past and endlessly into the future. Full stop continues its journey off-grid: measuring the lengths of light-gauge steel channels, piercing the thick of stacked documents, and, every two meters, making a stay in a vacuum, its body spasming. Descriptions, and to describe, are limited; severance’s seizures, and to sever, are lengthy; completion of the incomplete, to make an ending, fills to the brim. Abruptly halted, full stop has determined its path. Out from the vast expanse of totality it cuts a number of steps which can be grasped and stepped upon, and then, the nonexistent ladder appears. 