Editorial. On notes for Colourful and Safe.

To construct and to demolish.

Searching for similar entities to open a communication channel. Rhizomatic flow, broadened or restrained, but never numb.

On line manifestation of colour as practice and as a means of displaying diverse traits of thought, creation, aesthetics, even everyday life.

A visual array, unpretentious but meaningful. Creation of beauty, suggestion, motivation and emotion… Against callousness, neglect, ugliness and stagnation.
Nonchalant.
Liberated.
Non-transcendental. (Insignificant)

A delicate and fragile visual experience. Like the feelings of a child, innocent but overwhelming at the same time. Absolute, absolutist, candid, colourful; perhaps affected, vulgar, feeble.

With “M” we wish to capture an atmosphere of action/thought/life/emotion that we sense in our surroundings; it blends imperfectly the ideal of a certain beauty with estrangement from convention, fun with cogitation, unleashed hedonism with innocence and poetry.
You are the machines...
“Elastic, ambiguous, imprecise, imperfect” ALWAYS.

Genesis and process.

Twin units will signal from their orbits.
To receive each signal separately, to confront them and examine the result, to step into the next stage.
All of this in a casual manner, furnished with true belief and enjoyment.
Does belief imply enjoyment?
Must one enjoy in order to believe?
Must one believe at all?
Definitely or partly, no or unknown answer.

Let us light this fire and see what happens. It may burn the whole forest down or remain nothing but a blaze. Either way we shall have flames, and that could be enough.

To organize the desiring production = anarchy.
Cast off and sail ahead into the black, shining truth that lies in delirium, at sea by night…

At sea, by night, floating in the water, the sense of straying is complete. No light, no references at all. Is that freedom? You can sink and drown or be rescued by a boat.

Doubts, doubts…

Is anyone sure of anything?
Is certainty the end of movement?
Is movement important?
" I will dream of answers that will quickly be forgotten"

Is emotional unrest an active posture? Or is it merely some kind of delusion, placebo, an excuse for cowardice and non-confrontation.
Do what you must, we hear inside.

We show the world the things that make our blood rush. Whatever stirs us or brings us to the verge of a vanishing point.
Can this be of any use?
Is it mere onanism?
An eagerness to transcend?
Vanity?
Can all this be questioned?

The machine can be a toy or a tank. Or both: a toy tank…

Act as you feel, so creak our strings.
Do we feel or does someone feel for us?
We sense the first experience should be PRODUCTION OF PRODUCTION itself.

Colorful and Safe.

Choice of colour means freedom, as does non-choice. Suppression.

A color can be: Multicoloured, dull, harmonious, brilliant, gaudy, light, matching, weak, faded, blurred, discordant, dominant, strident, intense, inapreciable, incandescent, iridescent, flashy, matt, faint, dark, penetrating, lead-coloured, raging, pale, deep, eye-catching, bright...
The answer may be as you like.

Let us celebrate the magic and destruction of feelings through colour. From the distant sparkles of an isolation bubble to the clash of spears that takes place on different battlefronts of reality.

A split second captured in an image, a century depicted in the contour of a letter, an eon reflected in pure colour. Nothing and anything for the sake of beauty, colourful, as we stand on the edge of the cliff, that we are safe.

Machines Désirantes 2006
English version by Norah Delgado