Dominic Blake

Jun 22, 2024 | archive.ph | Tim Smith-Laing |Dominic Blake |Michael Delgado

As Gertrude Stein said more than once, ‘There is no such thing as repetition.’ Her justification was simple enough. It is, on one side, a kind of fundamental law of language and action. Repeat yourself, however so carefully, and the words, the story, the gesture morph in some small way with each recurrence. There is always what Stein called a new ‘insistence’, and every shifting insistence undoes the idea of repetition. But there is also more to it than this.