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Most of Us Use Some of It Most of us use some of it Each dug grain of sand Each stroke of each ball pen Each container Each m3 of goods Each drop of ink Each drop of underwater paint Each drop of fuel Each high tide and each low one Each rivet in each hull of each ship Each gram of lead in each keel Each cracked atom Each offshore windmill Each variation in the angle of each rudder Each blinking device and each wind gust Each minute that the day lasts and each minute that its glow remains to shine upon ungraspable forces Among many other things Most of us use some of it 3

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Most of Us Use Some of It Huge sets of contrasts strike me as I sail on the Westerschelde and on the North-Sea around the place where we find ourselves while visiting this show.

Then passes a small ship carrying sand. Tiny artificial mountains, unstably raising a few meters above the sea level.

And, as they make their route, they bring the thoughts of each of these grains of sand underway from a somewhere to another one. Some things bound to become a different “something” which some of us will use.

Mid-July, the Maya shall bring to Middelburg scattered pieces of these vanishing visions along with new elements of her Semi-Secret Conspiracy of Hidden Signs before continuing her journeys into exploring the ungraspable.

Contrasts between industry and nature, between the size of the container ships and the size of the sailboat on which I stand, between their speed and the way they are propelled.

Contrast between a horizontal landscape and anything that is vertical. Between our lifestyle in this area of the world and what makes it possible: Because it is hidden behind the curve of her river, Antwerp has no consciousness of her harbor. Because she is so green, Amsterdam does not see the cranes and chimneys of Rotterdam.

Thanks to everyone who sailed on the Maya in 2021 and more specifically to A. Deru, J. Kerremans, E. Pastier, and G. Picard.

Tracing our course through these stretches of water and land, powered by the wind on a 9 m boat, gave our crew new perspectives on all of these “It” and raised questions about our place among this machinery as strange feelings were growing in our hearts. The impression of being at the same time users of a complex system and alien intruders in “It”.

“It”: At once an obvious banality and an ungraspable choreography beyond any comprehension.

“It”: A violent sum of unleashed forces, yet a weirdly soothing and beautiful spectacle.

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Works&exhibition Pierre Coric Texts Pierre Coric Dani Ploeger Photos Pierre Coric Willy van Houtum Photos / catalog Hans Overvliet teamCAESUUR Jorieke Rottier Willy van Houtum Giel Louws Dani Ploeger Hans Overvliet Lange Noordstraat 67, 4331 CC Middelburg | caesuur@zeelandnet.nl www.caesuur.nu | www.caesuur-posethequestion.nl K.v.K. Middelburg 411 143 92 | IBAN NL65 RBRB 0787 6747 53 thanks to the happy share holders & ditto friends of CAESUUR | the municipality of Middelburg Kattendijke / Drucker Foundation | Family Fund Hurgronje | Frits Lensvelt Foundation 33

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