Meanwhiles #6

I wish to see a lateness harmonized with life

Meanwhiles is a series dedicated to the things that happen while the rest of life continues, opting for the useless, the quiet, the hidden, the careful. Looking towards the ways artists have celebrated or participated in this, excavating the small moments I’d have looked over otherwise, spending time with ideas I wouldn’t have otherwise. The meanwhile becomes space in space, time in time. Its like a transition, a jump cut, without ever going anywhere. A look down, a newly noticed mark, a found object, an isolated color. Meanwhiles go on and on, and they operate outside the familiar in the things, the moments when the familiar ceases to be that, by choice or otherwise.

This Meanwhiles digs into, in particular, Teju Cole’s Black Paper: Writing in a Dark Time, and follows it in my reengagement after a reconciliation with my own problematic intensities of consumption. In this process I return to the work of Edward Said, and think about Late Style, processes of reading, and the continuing g…