Having discovered Robert Walser's microscripts in 2014, I started assiduously writing notes everyday, wherever I was, about pretty much anything that was happening outside and inside of my head. Following a personal event in October of that year, I stopped this habit, put all the journals on a shelf, and left them to gather dust. Until yesterday, when, in order to clear my thoughts, I decided to read a few pages of one. I found notes that I took at a talk by Thomas Bayrle. What possessed me to write notes in this fashion I cannot recall, but they are, let's say, unique. They almost read like a poem, or like mind maps without the maps. Here they are:
Bayrle's BIG BOOK
makes the camel from camels
Having fun
Potato counters
The blue ants
Jazz fan
The grid the digital
grid is boring to the eye
GRID
Photocollages _ Photographing
toys in isometric way
cars - cities wallpapers -
The rosary is important.
The boredom of the repetition
the rosary rhythm machine
rhythm repetition rhythm
Rubber stamps
Series of one brushstroke
distorted 82 times
Dive into another area
and see what comes out.
Tibetan prayer - Tyre.
At the time, these notes informed a poem I wrote. You can read it HERE
Although mind mapping has always given me cerebral cramps, with hindsight, this kind of poetic note taking is actually quite powerful, and brings back vivid memories of the talk, much more so than straight note taking. To be repeated.
