It is fair to say that GANTOB and I have had our fair share of disagreements.
The title of my second blog (DUALITY), and GANTOB’s mention of Schrodinger’s cat in The Kompanion Volume (Pamphlet 21: The Letter) might have tipped you off about at least one shared interest that GANTOB and I have identified: quantum physics.
You may have noticed that this blog has a number in its title. The accompanying blog will be published tomorrow. It will be called QUANTUM TWO. I had hoped that this pair of blogs would feature equal contributions from GANTOB and myself. GANTOB, however, does not feel ready to put pen to paper after her Amazonian efforts to complete GANTOB (The Book). She has asked me to write her perspective.
I suspect that GANTOB’s increasing distance from the work is down to my savage editing on the day we submitted the book to the publisher. GANTOB had lovingly inserted annotated evidence of each “drop”, cross referenced to a map. These were separated into sections on book, vinyl and pamphlet drops, and pamphlet planes, stretching to 23 pages. GANTOB is fixated on the number 23. I am not. As the funder of the project, and aware of the spiralling costs with increasing length of the book, I insisted on cutting it down to 3 pages and a table. I did not inform GANTOB of this change. GANTOB’s original page layout is shown below.
To bring this back to yesterday’s blog (BRIDGES), GANTOB gave extra space to the pamphlet planes (the last 4 pages of photos), launched from bridges. While unconvinced that pamphlet planes made an impact on recruitment of Kompetition Applikants, she was nonetheless pleased with the documentation that she and GANTOB surrogates (missiformation and lloydofthelongchamps) had captured in the act of performing the planes. They add an additional layer to the GANTOB story.
GANTOB’s second plane, conducted from Regent Bridge in Edinburgh, is a case in point. You can see the images and video captured from GANTOB’s two attempts to launch the plane in the links at the end of yesterday’s blog.
In the accompanying text GANTOB explained her specific reason for choosing this location, noting her admiration of Katie Paterson’s work “A place that exists only in moonlight”. There is a magic to this spot, the towering buildings crossing strata of Edinburgh’s history, the intersection of ancient routes, if not ley lines.
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THE BENEFAKTOR
1 October 2023
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