04-09-26

the joy & absurdity of
a synchronicity:

someone mentions a term that reminds me of an artist. I feel compelled to tell them about said artist. I google search for a specific thing related to the artist that I want to share and find part of it on an “unsafe” website. i tell google to advance anyway. the website leads me to photocopied pages from a book. I find what I need and write to that person about said artist. Now I am intrigued by the website itself and remove words in the url to find their home page. it’s bizarre, but something compels me to keep scrolling. I land on an intriguing title. I click on it and find an art video made by an artist that is so peculiarly related to what I have been hovering over for weeks in my own practice. I will return to learn more. I now want to know what book those photocopied pages were from. i try to google it with no avail. finally, the right combination of words click and I am lead to another random photocopied page on another website that lists the title of a journal. I don’t think this is right, but I google it anyway. I am lead to a photo of the book and I laugh out loud. This same book is sitting on a shelf in my living room, one of the few books I’ve kept since art school and have barely ever cracked open.

i salute the ether.