O rascunho é a pesquisa (e o poema também): um processo de criação insignificante

Abstract

This text is an attempt, an experiment. Rehearsal. Attempt to show-by-doing the process of creation happening, unfolding, in the heat of the moment. I do this from a draft writing. A poem-research. Insignificant creation process. Let me explain: what interests me in this research is what does not appear. Something that is present every day and that, because it is so present, sometimes gets left aside, left out. What interests me is the common, the commonplace. This interest comes from my artistic work, from the daily practice of creating in artist's notebooks. I am amazed at this activity, which has accompanied me throughout my life. I am amazed at their details: scribbles that accumulate in drafts; scribbles that unfold into drawings, that move into poems. I am amazed to see life happening through this activity, permeated by such simple, banal, insignificant things. Time unfolding. Layer upon layer. This fright, this admiration for the same, for the usual, leads me to a desire for research: I want to create amazement at life out of insignificances. To do this, I use as a magnifying glass the notions of infraordinary, with Georges Perec (2010; 2016) and poetic disutility with Manoel de Barros (1997) to think about insignificance in my creative processes and as germinators of creation processes. I do this in an attempt to twist the world through the smallness of my work as an artist. A twist on the world for the small, the kid, micro. For what is forgotten, discarded, hidden. And how will I do this? Walking with poetry. As a theoretical reference and as a practice. I try to do with this text what I do in my artist's notebooks. A gesture, a process that, in its repetition, I call poetic. Poetics of Drafts. This is how I articulate insignificances and produce thought, creation. And, therefore, I seek to poetically disuse this dissertation, assuming the draft as a form, aesthetic. I consider this dissertation as a large draft. I do this by seeking to displace, carry out work on language, based on artistic language (and in artistic language itself). I make this shift hand in hand with poetry — tensioning the structure of the academic text with the sharp edge of the poem. Throughout the text, I draft a poem-research. Therefore, I invite/propose: read this text like someone reading a book of poetry that is coming out of the drawer.