Collectible Frogs

 

Table of Frogs

The Collector

The red line I am tracing through my life is retrospective, Nachträglichkeit, allowing for deferral and delay (differance), the time of understanding. Here is one of the challenges of electracy, with its collapsed dimensions of space and time in lived conditions (the dromosphere of light-speed technology). We are learning to tell our stories as we live them. The Philosopher warned us that life is told backwards (narrated in past tense), but must be lived forwards (with hope and fear of what is to come). The Other World emerging in virtual real time is replacing everyday life experience. We are tracing here how form-making develops first in imagination, in order to take over the design invention at some point. 

I began collecting frogs in mid-life, this totem chosen randomly I believed, as something to do while accompanying Kathy on her visits to antique malls and junk emporiums during the years she spent as an antique dealer. It is obvious now that the choice was not arbitrary, but determined by intuition. The family eventually learned of this hobby so that now on any occasion of gift-giving I always receive several frogs: the frogs now come to me on their own. Kathy's sweeps through the flea markets of North Central Florida proved to be a major resource, as she found and retrieved several foundational objects central to my mystory. These treasures will be introduced as the line (gram) unfolds.

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