In creating a work out of the potential, or possibility of a future work, is one not in reality creating a work of neither sort, but merely something approaching something else. It is not an action or a substitute yet beckons both. It is in many respects muted as a work, but full of previous actions and events. What concerns us here is the present. What is happening in the present? The work, this work, finds itself immobilised by a history and a future, both of which are contingent on the work presented in the present, but what is happening now is neither a work in progress (once removed perhaps) or a public work that affects. In documenting the Fire Station, the whole process becomes about the present, and its relation to its past and it continuing into the future, and yet, in reality, in actuality, the only thing that exists is the present and all that accumulates to it creates it and all that is projected as a yet to happen event is informed only by the sum of what has created the present. To work without plan, to work continuously in what occurs in the present and in the gradual formations of pasts reduces the erroneous assumptions and makes a work of its not knowing, and its willingness to fail. The present of writing, will at the time of reading be a formation of a past in the present, will exist in two space/times simultaneously, the distinction of the two is internal to the reader and external in its actuality. All the states that have existed to create the completion of the fire station will exist in the fire station as a totality that is imbued with the absence of its making, the eventual removal of time. This work is, rather than muted, a coalescing of past events to one present, this present, the present of reading. In reading now, one becomes party to a series of pasts and is forming an action of the presence and as a part of the formation of the work, the future work, the consciousness of its knowing is integral to its making. It is the continuing to be present (in action) that gives rise to an ability to respond to an event. If one can bear (carry) in mind a previous event in can in its making present inform the reception of the actual present and become again a present event, recalled in action. In knowing the significance of a book made as an impression of an installation, as a probing of the ordinal reception of a work, of a making present, an ephemerality, and a making present an event one finds a continuous reflection, a mise en abyme, and a strategy of making work. This work is this strategy in action, a constant and insatiable reflection.
