Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.58.0406051721110.27405@panix1.panix.com>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>,
"WRYTING-L : Writing and Theory across Disciplines" <WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA>
Subject: mine
Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2004 17:21:19 -0400 (EDT)
mine http://www.asondheim.org/mine.mov short sequence of west virginia mine bldgs. i'm embarrassed about these, i didn't do anything, just photograph them for whatever purpose, i'm not yet sure, i'm sure there's a background in the foreground somewhere, i'm not there yet, i've just been here a few days, but i've been in coal all my life, well that's not true, but i was raised in the anthracite district, well this is bituminous, still these resonate, heavily reduced in size, the moire patterns and indecipherable signage are a guarantee, perhaps these are a punctum in barthes' sense, i'm sure that's it, you're getting an insight into me, i know you're not particularly interested, my family wasn't a mining family, retail in a mining community, you'd hear the mine whistles blow, read of the deaths and cave-ins, mine closings and every day which mine would be operating when, the miners would check in and always polish on the radio, but i'm not embarrassed about these, i found them out, i framed and photographed with care, i'm certain of the reason, there's a foreman in the background somewhere - _