Happy New Year. waking up this morning I thought of the beginning of The Moviegoer by Walker Percy. Its been a long time since I read the book, but in my memory, the narrator, as a soldier in the Korean war, comes to consciousness and notices a dung beetle crawling around. He describes this moment of present-ness or awareness as “a clue”. Later he describes other moments in his life where beneath the veneer of the ordinary he was made aware of perhaps something greater. The narrator never really goes farther about what he means by “a clue”. That agrees with my general feeling that it is difficult, perhaps impossible, to put spirituality into words.
I started working on a project today to make a drawing a day for everyday in January. It is inspired by the fun-a-day project of the art clash collective in Philadelphia. (www.artclash.com). I thought that I would title this project “Clues”. (generally I take it as a red flag to have a title before the object is mature- but I will risk it here.) Small observations. Nothing that takes more than half an hour to create.
