<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yiv5097809811"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1469800317326_17347"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1469800317326_17346" style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div id="yiv5097809811yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1469800317326_9666">Hi and thanks to all for the discussion and the</div><div id="yiv5097809811yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1469800317326_9708">very welcome reading suggestions.This is<br></div><div id="yiv5097809811yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1469800317326_9761" dir="ltr"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1469800317326_17366">all much food for thought. Beatriz's com-</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1469800317326_17421" dir="ltr">ment on surveillance (and past mention of it on-<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1469800317326_17433" dir="ltr">list) started me reconsidering ideas on how art</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1469800317326_17498" dir="ltr">includes such elements. I think the constancy</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1469800317326_17736" dir="ltr">of a utopia/dystopia dualization influences the</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1469800317326_17737" dir="ltr">way creative activity of any kind calls on various</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1469800317326_17738" dir="ltr">philosop`hies and thought systems that affect</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1469800317326_17743" dir="ltr">the work's theme. Obviously some fragmentation</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1469800317326_18154" dir="ltr">is present from the beginning. Maybe one reason</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1469800317326_18109" dir="ltr">the camera obscura facinates is its reproduction</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1469800317326_17935" dir="ltr">of great detail, though obviously with ceretain</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1469800317326_17934" dir="ltr">distortions? I'm not trained in photo camera</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1469800317326_17936" dir="ltr">but drawing glassware in art classes got me</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1469800317326_17981" dir="ltr">interested in doing some simple photos</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1469800317326_18133" dir="ltr">of/into/through windows on buses and trains.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1469800317326_18235" dir="ltr">This is an attempt to add at least two backup</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1469800317326_18327" dir="ltr">elements to the artwork, the aleatory, a la John</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1469800317326_18367" dir="ltr">Cage, and indeterminacy, or a search for novelty</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1469800317326_18780" dir="ltr">(I suppose a kind of Cubism.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1469800317326_18401" dir="ltr">I imagine many people on the list have done si-</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1469800317326_18435" dir="ltr">milar things, and undoubtably with greater technical</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1469800317326_18441" dir="ltr">know how, but two such pieces went up on my</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1469800317326_18473" dir="ltr">poetry blog last week, and it seemed a good time</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1469800317326_18489" dir="ltr">to mention some of my work here. Link below my</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1469800317326_18539" dir="ltr">name. Thanks again to all! William<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1469800317326_18525" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1469800317326_18555" dir="ltr"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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