STATION I: FIELD CHARGE

Cosmology, memory, and the pre-sentence ritual

There are beginnings that are not openings. There are texts that do not start—but gather.

STATION I: FIELD CHARGE initiates Stations of the Manoeuvre not with thesis, but with atmosphere. It is a ritual orientation—a charged paratextual field composed of epigraphs, cosmological traces, and the first fragments of a method still taking shape. The manoeuvre, as it will later unfold, is not yet named. Here, we overhear its early murmur.

Drawing from the fragmentary, the devotional, and the durational, this STATION collects a constellation of citations and memory-forms: Joseph Beuys walking through Scotland in 1970; Sol LeWitt’s architectural scores; Vatican II’s redefinition of pilgrimage; Dylan’s haunted encounter with the ghost of Kerouac; and the performative footprints of artists whose gestures exceed genre. These are not simply influences—they are coordinates in a ritual diagram.

The field charge is a tuning device. It aligns method with myth, performance with inscription, and language with land. Through epigraphs and entry passages, the manoeuvre begins to make itself felt—not through clarity, but through resonance.

The first Ritual Digital Artefact in the series includes:

  • The original epigraphic field

  • A paratextual invocation

  • “How to Attend This Field” – reader orientation

  • Annotations of core influences and cosmological foreshadowing

  • Visual score fragments

STATIONS OF THE MANOEUVRE I: FIELD CHARGE  - artefact is forthcoming

FIELD CHARGE is not a preface. It is a frequency.
What follows is not linear.
It is liturgical.