FILM, E[D] R[USCHA]
[“Sometimes found words are the most pure
because they have nothing to do with you.” – E.R.]
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Part of a little ceremony.
I’ll explain that to you later.
How’s this for entertainment?
What was our arrangement?
Barry Alpert / Silver Spring, MD US / 6-8-05 (4:19 PM)
Initially conceived of as a six-line acrostic likely to be completed during
my viewing of two short films directed by Ed Ruscha, “PREMIUM”
and “MIRACLE”, this work quickly demanded that I drop the acrostic process
in favor of intuitive choice. Interference from the composition of an
acrostic sixteener, “ED RUSCHA’S PREMIUM”, during that film alone, argued
that neither work would be finished if I stuck to my original strategy.
Backing up one compositional process with another to insure the production
of at least one piece of writing out of a session as audience in the dark
may have, in this instance, yielded two presentable texts, but I’ll delay
the posting of the second until I’m comfortable with revisions for which I
just saw the need. Despite this possible success, I may soon abandon my
recent experiment with writing two texts during the same short period of
experiential time because on most occasions I lose that sense of continuing
attention which probably insured whatever seeming coherence I was able to
render out of an already difficult physical situation. “It’s just too
much.”
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