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

[christina]

that's how those glyphic drawings revealed their functions as  
provisional observations,

they instigate an observation, apparently......

a turn-on (erotic) for the ordinateur /ordinary/ the daily feed of  
numbers

On Mar 3, 2011, at 1:55 PM, Gabriela Vargas-Cetina wrote:

> Well, now your drawing turns on a computer every day!  This is an  
> amazing
> story
>
> Gaby
>
>
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> On 3/3/11 10:57 AM, "Christina McPhee" <christina at christinamcphee.net>
> wrote:
>
>> 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 withdrawn indrawn drawn model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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