Hi Johannes, Thank you so much for this. The work for the past seven weeks has almost all involved a sense of local/locality which at the same time might be anywhere. So much of the drive has been linear, long looping highways around bluffs or river edges. So the roads are there and both insistent and anonymous. We've also been photographing ground cover, fungi, all sorts of things that appear almost invisible or peripheral. I finally found something that might be slime mold on the underside of a few mulch twigs in Omaha; that's the only sign we've seen of that. And the putting the roads up, almost pulling them up, online. We're not going that fast, 6200 miles in 7 weeks, but the stopovers are also intense, working through my archives in Vancouver Washington and Columbus, and through Lee Murray's archival materials in Omaha. So history. We also saw more remnants of the 19th-century Oregon Trail this trip, literally forget where. For the most part avoided winter, but these enormous skies are everywhere through the middle of the country, even here outside Rochester now and the wind's howling... And the politics, too, are howling, but at least for these few weeks we've not run into anything but kindness. That still exists in the U.S. but is getting increasingly buried -
Best, Alan On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 4:23 PM Johannes Birringer via NetBehaviour < netbehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote: > dear Alan > just to say that I really loved you writing here, it was moving and very > thought-provoking to me, > and I took the liberty to share it with my digital students, they have to > do a leaves and tree performance this week, > and I gave them your poem to look at, together with a poem I found on the > floor of an exhibition in Seoul, a few years ago. > I mean the poem was printed out (in a digital photography exhibition), and > about a hundred sheets or more lay on the floor; I stole one to take home. > > > WHEN I WAS A TREE > WHEN I WAS A CHAIR > > WHEN I BORE FRUITS > > WHEN I HEALED > > WHEN I LEFT A SHADOW BEHIND > > WHEN I EMBRACED THE LAND > > > IF I BECOME A FIRE > > AS A PAPER, I AM CONTENT > > > > (Jae Eun Choi, Seoul, 2012) > > > with regards > Johannes Birringer > DAP-Lab, London > > > > ________________________________________ > From: NetBehaviour <netbehaviour-boun...@lists.netbehaviour.org> on > behalf of Alan Sondheim <sondh...@panix.com> > Sent: 11 November 2021 02:31 > To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity > Subject: [NetBehaviour] wood and leaves from wood > > > wood and leaves from wood > > http://www.alansondheim.org/leaves.jpg > https://youtu.be/DPbLHUkmV0s video > > It would be wooden leaves from wood. Don't mistake the wood for > wood and don't mistake the leaves for leaves . Don't mistake the > wood for leaves and don't mistake the leaves for wood. The sound > is the sound technological brutalism . No no no no no, it is the > sound of kindness . Everything is messaged and everything is > massage . Is that what I spoke or is that what I wrote or is > that what I thought . I no longer know but I do know that I can > read what I wrote and what I thought I can speak . In that way > my thinking is speech and the world gives me infinite signs . I > am in infinite sign of the world . A leaf is an infinite sign of > the world . But the world is not in the leaf and the world is > not in me . You can't see the world in a leaf . You can't see > the world in the stars . You can't see the world in anything . > You can't see the world . But you can listen to the modulated > wooden leaves from the wood and the leaves from the woods . And > the stars see nothing . The stars see nothing at all . > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org > https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org > https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > -- *=====================================================* *directory http://www.alansondheim.org <http://www.alansondheim.org> tel 347-383-8552**email sondheim ut panix.com <http://panix.com>, sondheim ut gmail.com <http://gmail.com>* *=====================================================*
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