Lawrence,
apologies for jotted note-reactions just before I sleep:
"Contact Sheet" wonderful: a world in a table, magnified, walked through,
analyzed, realized and, upon stepping back, one sees the made-world's limits
as well as its context
"what's left of forest
turned to house chattel" and
"fabrication"-----(quoted parts) especially effective there at the end
thanks,
Judy
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From: "Lawrence Upton" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 6:29 AM
Subject: snap - contact sheet 28 Sep 05
> CONTACT SHEET
>
> A wooden table...
>
> Planks of wood, bolted
> on a black metal frame...
>
> Bolt-heads bruised somewhat:
>
> A dark eye, rounding
> an eclipsed planet
> orbiting a night sphere
> partly occluding
> a burnished brown light...
>
> Dampness, darkening
> the dry wood, spreads out
> from each bolt spindle... The poor beyond walls
>
> Wood fiber up close
> showing fine detail;
> cracks along the grain,
> stains and miasmas,
> ruptures and splitting,
> seeing by dim light;
> crevasses, adits,
> caves and souterrains;
> shapes in thick sea mist...
>
> Line smoothed into wash...
>
> Backdrop and foreground...
>
> The end of a world
> on all four made sides...
>
> The table remains:
>
> what's left of forest
> turned to house chattel...
>
> enlarged by constructs
> an environment...
>
> a fabrication
>
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