ReGroup Red Ant Society
A dissociated series of "points," red points, constitutes the grid, spacing a multiplicity of matrices or generative cells whose transformations will never let themselves be calmed, stabilised, installed, identified in a continuum. Divisible themselves, these cells also point towards instants of rupture, discontinuity, disjunction. But simultaneously, or rather, through a series of mishaps, rhythmed anachromies or aphoristical gaps, the point of folie [Fr. point de folie = no folie] gathers together what it has just dispersed; it reassembles it as dispersion. It gathers into a multiplicity of red points. Resemblance and reassembly are not confined to colour, but the chromographic reminder plays a necessary part in it.
-- Jacques Derrida, "Point de Folie - maintenant l'architecture," in Psyche [trans. Kate Linker]
My childhood was elegant homes, tree lined streets, the milkman, building backyard forts, droning airplanes, blue skies, picket fences, green grass, cherry trees. Middle America as it's supposed to be. But on the cherry tree there's this pitch oozing out -- some black, some yellow and millions of red ants crawling all over it. I discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath.
-- David Lynch, quoted in the documentary Lynch
