The proliferation and the tiny: between non-sites and poetic objects

Abstract

This article approaches poetic objects as a cartography that merges places and memories – a cartography understood herein as layers of events capable of sensitizing the gaze. The poetic object is supposed to take shape from discarded material, things of reduced size collected and gathered in a box. The work mirrors the practice from an industrial site in Mogi das Cruzes, São Paulo. It helps the reader to understand the relationship between place, memory and object based on the concept of the rhizome by Deleuze and Guattari, on Robert Smithson’s non-sites, and in anthropologist Anna Tsing’s studies of industrial ruins and the negotiations between multi-species. Combining tiny elements produces a proliferating cartography of meanings.