[-empyre-] This drawing while turning on a computer.

[christina]

on the nonce (8.50 AM here):

As it happens:

The story of how the drawing acquired its speech action.


Two years ago, I drew the two gnarly glyphy almost smear ballpoint  
characters on a piece of washi paper.  The paper was from
Hiromi paper in Santa Monica.  It had been made by a 'Japanese  
National Treasure' master.  Last set of sheets of its kind before
the death of the master, or so they said, at Hiromi.

I stopped not being able to see what was next.

Frustrated let the washi fall to the graphite-strewn floor of the  
shed, then outside hanging by a clip.  Rain, then sun.  Stains.

Brought the drawing back inside, put it back up on the wall next to my  
computer. Stopped seeing it.

Then: my brother (who never visits) visited.  He is a Buddhist monk.   
Known for dry humor and few words.

As he walked past the drawing, he said ,

"This drawing will turn on a computer."

I was at my laptop as now.

I leapt up in excitement and grabbed a stubby pencil and quickly wrote  
his dicta in large letters across the bottom half.
The soft graphite was sliding deliciously over the still-silky washi  
unbowed by many rains.


On Mar 3, 2011, at 1:13 AM, simon wrote:

> Dear <<empyreans>>,
>
> initially, the field
>
> this drawing while turning on a computer taps into a felt fold
> inside inside skin-side
> if only an interval might intercede
> one time once at once nonce-wise
> a computer annexes this interval
> withdrawn indrawn drawn model
> participating in the hallucination of a mathematics
> to which in such twitch
> subjectivities annexing subjectivities
> to the illusion of a multiplicity
> mathematical minus plus plus being
> a collectivity minus much more less or less
> a nomadology within matter matters butterfly.
>
> Best,
>
> Simon Taylor
>
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