Annotations
Connection Notes
A connection here is a sentence, not a line in a diagram. If it cannot be written down why two things touch, the connection does not exist yet.
13
records in total
8
cabinet entries
14
written connections
There is no graph yet, and there will not be one until the archive holds roughly 40 substantive entries. A visualisation built on 8 entries would simulate a density that does not exist. Until then, connections live at the foot of each entry, beside the writing that explains them.
The notes
Held together by it, and repairable because of it.
The clasp is almost always the other material.
Being tested in the studio.
Andean extraction and Amazonian trade are the same colonial ledger.
Both are arguments about what deserves to be kept.
A staple is only legible in the market that sells it.
Documented in three working kitchens.
The market's calendar is the river's calendar.
The canoe and the water it was cut for.
Lines the drawers that keep collections from insects.
A sample taken from it.
Both are instruments whose credibility is visible.
The field note that started it.
Same method: label everything, then look again.