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 on behalf of
Alan Sondheim
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 .
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