Imagining what isn’t in order to make it what is; imagining what never was or will be in order to stretch imagining itself.
Public Art Fund/Pierre Huyghe
"The extraordinary events and unlikely phenomena to which sailors bear solitary witness are not easy to record. The narrative must be precise, or it runs the risk of being taken for a fabrication. For the maritime storyteller this would be unthinkable, as he and his story are inseparable. The truth, therefore, must be made believable. One way is to understand the story by weeding out exceptional details, however factual. Another option is to dress the truth in the costume of fiction by using those same details to elaborate the story. But on certain occasions, such as this one, none of these narrative mechanisms are sought..."
READ "El Diario del Fin del Mundo: A Journey that Wasn't"
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