"Being exhausted is much more than being tired," It's not just tiredness. I'm not just tired in spite of the climb." The tired person no longer has any (subjective) possibility at his disposal; he therefore cannot realize the slightest (objective) possibility. But the latter remains, because one can never realize the whole of the possible; in fact, one even creates the possible to the extent that one realizes it. The tired person has merely exhausted the realization, whereas the exhausted person exhausts the whole of the possible." (p. 152).
Exhausting the whole of possible means that we come here exhausted and exhaust possibilities in the space of the exhausted (a storefront left vacant for two years).
Deleuze further states that there are 4 ways of exhausting the exhaustable:
1) forming an exhaustive series of things
2) drying up the flow of voices
3) extenuating the possibilities of space
4) dissipating the power of the image
With this criteria in mind, viewing Devin's writing to "Dear Lost Man" exhausts the whole of the possible through layered entries and additional hand written scrolls of her entries to her husband on the inside of the space. She keeps a journal of her entries and writes them down at all hours of the day.
Each day she comes to the storefront she heads up to the front window and writes her entries to her lost husband.
Inspired by the French conceptual artist/provocateur, Sophie Calle who invited 107 outside interpretations of a "breakup" e-mail she received from her lover the day he ended their affair, Devin brings her private ruminations into the public realm.
Unable to speak directly to her estranged husband Devin writes: "Dear Lost Man . . ."
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