CARSTEN HÖLLER [ H-003A ]
The Clear Fantasy
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I am going to try to share an idea or fantasy with you, through this text. Therefore, you must be ready to engage in this fantasy within the frame of existing possibilities. You mustn't know anything about me. We can share the fantasy without knowing anything about one another. It's a clear fantasy. You only have to forget a lot of things. Lose your preconceptions. However, don't forget, at least for the time being, that this is a text, which mediates the fantasy, and that the fantasy is completely different. If you haven't yet forgotten the nature of this possibility - that you can share this fantasy with me - you can forget it now. Let's start by going step by step. Think about how you perceive the outer world, without concentrating on any one thing. Everything that surrounds you, and yourself as well, appears in a certain way; exists within a particular framework, although exactly how is unclear. Think about this framework. It is a frame with soft edges, which gradually dissolve outward. Once you've found the soft frame, it would be good to forget it. Now, leave the frame. First, concentrate on the immediate surroundings, and on everything but the frame. We've already come a long way. Next, try to imagine the essence of both the frame's surroundings and the frame itself. In doing so, you must focus on the essence specifically; the rest remains general. Thus you manage to include everything. Now we reach the crucial step. After all, you are still thinking specifically about the essence of the frame and its surroundings. Try to tune out the specific, as if you were turning a knob. Lower the volume as far as possible. This enables the undiluted fantasy. The moment of clarity has arrived. From here you cannot go any further. But when you return, you will have gained, through the clear fantasy you've had, a reference point for thinking. |

Translation: Bettina Funcke

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