thinking about what matters .. Ursula

two pictures their meaning between them. meant for audience of one.

“A poem should not mean / But be.” MacLeish, Ars Poetica.

I stumble around, sometimes ,in the right direction the time comes along

2013, on the road. matching place overtime . The word, single word, “duet” suggests combination; some form of two. Standing still with soft eyes; my phrase from the 60s days, based upon the equestrian sense of riding a horse. Ride it with soft hands or hard. Different results, but then horses and terrain are different. If you can’t notice, don’t ride; you will choose wrong. At the SFAI, I talked about prints on the wall — variations in style of walking-looking. Be aware of your presence. You have a shadow; you aren’t one.

geometries or time . make the ‘or’ an ‘and’ ; geometries AND time. exposure and revealing .

The act of noticing. Action. la vie d’intérieur

Picking phrases that pick at me. One such: ‘they could calculate the exact mix of randomness and chaos..’

God moves the player and he, the piece.
What god behind God originates the scheme
Of dust and time and dream and agony? Borges (“The Game of Chess”)

[words proof diagram ]FOL, an abstract language.

flaneur / umsucht … The world is the collection of facts, not of things. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Each is a half-open door …

not Iq84 ish… not two worlds-times in same space-place.. at least not that i knew before shuttering

An indirect reference item:
“Gabriela Alemán has written a terrible and beautiful story about the delicate borders between what is known and what is invented, and about the places where intimate tragedy and the tragedies of history intersect.”—Yuri Herrera, author of Signs Preceding the End of the World

Is there any hope for the world? No, there’s too much work

PICTURE POSTs are additions to portfolio items. This is part of my 180s open-ended folios.