Landscape of Abandonment

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MONUMENTAL NEED IN THE LANDSCAPE OF ABANDONMENT

01. Enunciation/Annunciation [Mary, you bring the son of God inside you]

Violations for necessity.

Violation [excess]. Bad use, excessive use [ruthless], unlawful use of a thing. I take toomuch room, I do this in an excessive [ruthless] illegitimate manner.

Violation [Power abuse]. I illegally exercise the power of altering the landscape. De-sign[(de)-mark] the territory, or even a field. A shore. And while I illegally/illegitimately alterthe place of my urge I render it vulnerable [the place, not the urge]. We are vulnerabletogether [me and the place, the active part and the passive part, mutually]. We cohabitvulnerably, admirably.

Needful. There is no way I can withdraw from it. I cannot withdraw myself from a need.

To abandon. To leave without help and protection, to leave to own weaknesses. Stoptaking care of something. But the landscape wants [wants!] to be abandoned [never againfield for the game of golf, never again!]. It is its vocation, its destiny. [With time perhapsthe abandonment absorbs the need, it absorbs the object through which the needmanifests itself].

There is an assonance between the representation of need and the place of the

representation. Between the script [of a play] and the stage. Between the spokenlanguage and the architectural language.

I close my eyes, I hear people talking, I recognize an idiom, an inflection, a cadence. Ican envision [listening to the spoken language] the houses of the people that speak thatlanguage. I can envision the city built with those houses.

It is a city that speaks the language of the people that live in it [the people who built it]. Not asimplifield language but a poor language. A language that doesnt tell a story of decay but the story withof the arrogance of those who have no stories to tell. The spoken language and the architectural language

are perfectly superimposed. If you [eyes closed] walk in this kind of city and if you pay attention to theugly noise of voices you can guess [eyes closed]the shape of the houses. It is the language of the relapseinto illiteracy that returns forms swallowed without mastication, forms that are simply shat like that, juststained with shit.

It is the city of the future. It is the all-against-all-city. The men-too-absent-minded-for-the-revolution-city.

Essential vocabulary. Essential but hyperbolic [ripetitive redundant noisy] language.Ripetitive [full of rapid involuntary movements] language.

So many little needs, all together, became a multitude [large-multitude-of-little-needs].

The large-multitude-of-little-needs aspires to redemption. But first of all this multitudewants to be identified.


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I-den-ti-fi-ca-tion. I-den-ti-fi-ca-tion. I-den-ti-fi-ca-tion. First a whisper then a choir andfinally a cadenced [spelled] scream.

For its own identification this multitude/people chooses to use a monument that comes[originates] from itself. A collective [manipulated dilated] form. A form which, while

becoming a hypertrophic huge mammoth form, will still be recognizable as its own.

A liberating [immaginative] anamorphosis.

Only in this way the large-multitude-of-little-needs can produce stupefaction [a counter-Reform stupefaction]. A stupefaction that prepares respect. A legitimizing stupefaction.

The large-multitude-of-little-needs monument stands [in-vulnerably stands/admirablystands] in the landscape of abandonment.


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02. Exemplification/simplification

The Pennata is the popular manifesto of the appropriation of the archetypes [instinctivelyreproducible archetypes, instantly recognizable archetypes].

The Pennatais a timeless hut [without technology] with no aspiration to the invention ofa form. The Pennata is built to be temporary, precarious, to be removable if the policearrives [police never arrives!]

L'phmre est ternel.

On the one hand the man-child builds a shelter for the things that are outdoor [that canstay outdoor], on the other hand the man-no-more-a-child builds [next to the former]the shelter for the things that are indoor [that have to stay indoor].

The child plays [genetically driven] with the lightness of the apparent improvisation nextto the adult that returns [for mimetic persuasion] formulas of social integration [aniconography of belonging].

Do you know, [you] men-no-more-children, that those huts/half-huts/giant-huts thatyou have near you can resurface on the beach along with the Statue of Liberty?


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04. Type/cucumber/pumpkin/nest/Pennata That skyscraper looks like a cucumber. That auditorium looks like a pumpkin. Thatstadium looks like a nest. This is a Pennata.


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05. Tone on tone/nuancesIn spring time, from april to may, the landscape of abandonment is colored with a heap[that you can not count the number] of different greens. A lot of greens. Never so manytogether. And every green has its place.

It is an absorbing-green.


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06. Identity/individuality

The identity of a place, of a people. I belong to a place [I belong to a people] if I adhereto a pattern.

Identity as a pattern.

I belong to a place [I belong to a people] if I was born in that place [by that people].

Identity as a genetic code.

I belong to a place [I belong to a people] if I find that place a familiar place [if thatpeople protect me as a family]

Identity as a refuge.

I belong to a place [I belong to a people] if that place leaves a place for me and if thatpeople adjoin me to the others.

Identity as inclusion.

I belong to a place [I belong to a people] if that place and that people recognize me fromothers [if that place and that people realize that I am there among others too].

Identity as a sum of individualities that brush against one another.


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07. The not-city and the oblivion people/the not-c i ty and the pay-tv peopleThe balance of the city prepares [recovers] its beauty.

The recent city [the city of the outskirts, the marginal city or in enclavesin the heart of the

dense city] is not against the not-recent city. It is not an against-city. It is a not-city.

[It is not the against-citybut an unborn fetus, not-yet-calcified fetus. It is a not-yet-city].

A prayer refrain

The not-city corresponds to the oblivion people/The not-city hosts the oblivion people/ The not-city arises

from the oblivion people/ The not-city is built for the oblivion people/

The not-city and the oblivion people do not take part in the allocation of weights [thenot-city and the oblivion people have a negligible weight].

Beauty and democracy [instead] are built on balance. [The aesthetics of the im-balancereflects the economic and social im-balance]

MONUMENTAL NEED IN THE IM-BALANCED CITY

The monument [to be shared and supported by the oblivion people] have to be

recognized as their own. It [the monument] has to be represented in a form generated bytheir own [of the oblivion people] linguistic repertoire. It [the monument] has to showproudly its genesis, it [the monument] has to assume a dilated hypertrophic mammothhuge, but always recognizable, size. A liberating [immaginative] anamorphosis.

Only in this way the monument can produce stupefaction [a counter-Reformstupefaction]. A stupefaction that prepares respect. A legitimizing stupefaction.


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