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Preserving (n.) concealment ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠is not keeping something given but a binding that projects into the open.

Preserving (n.) a ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠work does not reduce people to private experiences but joins them to its truth, and so grounds being for and with one another.

Preserving (n.) a ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠work means holding back our customary doing and valuing, our knowing and looking, so as to remain in the truth that happens in the work — that holding back alone lets a work be a work.

Preserving (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a matter of holding open that force of disclosure to which the artist already responds in the emergent work, and not to make of the work an object on to which predetermined labels could be fixed.

Preserving (n.) a ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠work is a sober standing-within the awesomeness of its truth — far from lived experience, and farthest of all from aestheticizing connoisseurship of its qualities and charms.