Work 2016, No.2 »The Goat Path, Chapter One«

»Have a closer look at these young men walking legs apart with their explosive belts around their hips, just waiting for an opportunity to tear you apart, to get – as a reward for the heroic deed – 72 virgins in heaven and you will see, also terrorism is nothing but a sublimation of sexual desire (walking the Goat's Path until it ends...), for sure in this way one of the deadliest.«, said the Sandman.
I do not know if you remember, who the Sandman was. I am not the Sandman. Maybe I am the draftsman. No, I am not! Not at all. Wait a moment, I have to think about it…

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The Goat Path, figure I
The Goat Path, figure I

Correlations between me (my body) and others, related to the question which path should we choose (to come closer or being separated) – principal scheme –

The Goat Path, figure II
The Goat Path, figure II

A goat path (also known as a desire line, social trail or bootleg trail) can be a path created as a consequence of erosion caused by human or animal foot-fall or traffic.

The Goat Path, figure III
The Goat Path, figure III

The goat path usually represents the shortest or most easily navigated route between an origin and destination. 

The Goat Path, figure IV
The Goat Path, figure IV

Width and erosion severity can be indicators of how much traffic a path receives. Goat paths emerge as shortcuts where constructed ways take a circuitous route, have gaps, or are non-existent.

The Goat Path, figure V
The Goat Path, figure V

»From sunrise to sunset, I was in the forest, sometimes far from the house, with my goat who watched me as a mother does a child. All the animals in the forest became my friends, even dangerous and poisonous ones. Thanks to my goat-mother and my Indian nurse, I have always enjoyed the trust of animals--a precious gift. I still love animals infinitely more than human beings.«
Diego Rivera, My Art, My Life


Much more than a draftsman, painter or writer I am  a research worker (therefore also a teacher who holds lessons and lectures about tiny little things called "formative elements“). The objects of my research are the words. But „research" is not the right term. Maybe I have to say, someone who is following traces (or a path); of the movements from point to point, with which the words arise. It is more a fixing of this movements than a work of research. 
As we know, research has the goal to collect knowledge and to use this knowledge to optimize the human conditions of tomorrow but the things I am doing are useless in this sense. I have no goal except to preserve the present movements. I call this work of preservation "existential notation". The primary tool of my work is to draw. I do this to preserve the movements of the moment which are identical with the movements of drawing.

Tomaso Carnetto