Mute Objects Of Expression (2011) - Plot & Excerpts
FONTENELLE Here, against a backdrop of azure sky, like a character in the Italian commedia, with a pinch of absurd histrionics, powdered as a Pierrot in his costume of yellow polka dots – mimosa. But it’s not a lunar shrub: rather a solar one, multisolar . . . A character of naive vainglory, easily discouraged. Anything but smooth, each seed, made up of silky hairs, is a heavenly body if you will, infinitely starred. The leaves seem like great feathers, very light and yet bowed under their own weight; therefore more touching than other palms, and for the same reason very distinguished as well. Yet nowadays there’s something vulgar about the idea of the mimosa; it’s a flower that has recently been vulgarized. . . . Just as in tamarisk there is tamis, or sieve, in mimosa there is mima, mimed. I never choose the easiest subjects; that’s why I choose the mimosa. And since it’s a very difficult subject, I must open a notebook. First of all, I have to say that the mimosa doesn’t inspire me in the least.
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