The imago, the memory, the phantasm – are not only no less real for man than the ‘real circumstances’, they are also more mobile, more transportable, faster and can therefore move him forwards and backwards in time. Imagination and memory are vision and memory. They can replace reality.
It is only in the face of the fantastic, when reason loses its power of control, that the deepest feelings are able to express themselves. These feelings cannot emerge within the framework of the ‘real world’ and find no way out other than succumbing to the eternal attraction of symbols and myths. The inclination to experiment stimulates us to pay attention to the insignificant, the wrong and the right, and to think about how things could be improved: shortened, increased, changed.
The tendency to experiment is the stimulus to look at the insignificant, the wrong and the right with attention, to think back and forth about how it could be changed, shortened and increased to become something better.
Michael Perkampus was born on April 2, 1969 in the Fichtel Mountains. As a solitaire of German literature, he works with “fragments of consciousness” and “syncopations”, a “philosophical fantasy” in his texts.