Monument (II) Folly (1/3)

Locality 1

A loose trilogy of novels taking place in fictional apparitions of Leicester, UK and Nice, France.

They are about places and the way communities are formed, the way individuals enter new places, build community and observe being and belonging.

They each have a degree of paranoiac experience, which increases in each subsequent book.

None of them have endings that resolve. The characters are left within the spaces.

I wanted to write a couple of posts, exploring a little bit about each of the texts. Or at least the memory of them now.

Monument (II) Folly

This text focuses on a couple of young artists trying to navigate relationships, balancing desire and dreams with a rapidly shifting reality.

It imagines different artistic practices and methods of research and production.

This was largely informed by my own relationship and experience as an artist in a collective, trying to discover how we might continue to exist as artists.

The story had a strange element of foreshadowing as the characters lived in a flat that I eventually lived in and follow a journey, to Nice, which I eventually took as well.

I'm fascinated by the closeness of these kind of fictions, to lived reality. When tied to specific places they alter and affect the way you encounter those spaces and people (or their avatars). As soon as things are described in the story, it becomes possible that they might come to pass in the equivalent reality.

The friction of the fiction.

This text expanded on some ideas I'd developed at Art School around the description of artwork vs the reality of artwork. It was a lot of fun to describe works and imagine them.

• post to be continued

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