Christopher Fritton

 

Gadamer's Mirror

 

 

The initial impetus for “Gadamer’s Mirror” was Hans Georg Gadamer’s notion that language is the inexhaustible mirror of the inexhaustible world; he writes “the mirror of language is reflecting everything that is.” As I constructed the piece, my quest for an infinite reflection of the print (an endlessly redundant hermeneutical exchange) came closer to Duchamp’s notion of the fourth dimension. Duchamp once jotted, “The 4-dim’l continuum is essentially the mirror of the 3-dim’l continuum.” A reflected thing is sensible, but it has no extension; it is contiguous but not continuous. It is a trick of light. That which exists neither in space nor time except as an illusion may be infinite (or infinitessimal) and must approximate (or typify) 4th dimensionality. The text of the poem reads; “All human speech is finite in such a way that there is within it an infinity of meaning.”

-Christopher Fritton

 

Christopher Fritton is a visual poet, sound poet, correspondence artist, and FLUXUS associate from Buffalo, NY. He currently resides in Bangor, ME, where he is the head of The Institute for the Advancement of Higher Histrionics, an affiliate of the Performance Thanatology Research Society, and a member of BuffFluxus.

 

 

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