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Transition (Osmosis) – (iii) Living in another corpus

Artists, writers, thinkers bear other kinds of open wounds – their work – into being. Yet even artistic creations can sometimes occupy an Other's space. The life that art longs to present, to enter, and be a part of – the life of artists – is constantly abandoned in the silence of its Other – the maker for whom it purports to speak – who is always in retreat, again and again, back, beyond, behind, beneath their work. Standing, again defeated, even in the artist's shadow, the work that art came to achieve has to be abandoned – for life itself. Like Wenders' Homer in Potsdamerplatz, the artist's work stands on barren, abandoned land, a hollow act made speechless.