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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: some southwest images
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 10:24:50 -0500 (EST)
some southwest images except for the first, which has its own aesopian moral, the rest carry a sense of the dream, veering between personal escape and National Geograph- ic ideology. a semblance of the sublime and/or wilderness can be found anywhere. all of this land is managed. the nosecone image touches on the photography of the south-west absurd. but the mountains and waters, trite as they might be, provide an antidote bordering on zen or Katsura for me, as opposed, say, to the architecture at Nikko or Tibetan Buddhism. it's always and never the same world. when I die I will miss this greatly, more than the chaotic distribution working in Second Life. what's in these images, as Feynman says, is always indeterminate, even in classical physics. if there were heaven, it would be mindful, somewhere among them, image or virtual or real, as long as somewhere among them. http://www.alansondheim.org/ sw jpgs sw1 quail, NM, they spent a great deal of time preening and chasing the doves away from the food; meanwhile the doves ate quietly, conserving energy sw2 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) nosecone in a garden, NM sw3 from a lake in the Rockies, CO, we need Foofwa to perform there sw4 U-shaped glacial valley in the Rockies, CO sw5 Rockies CO, in a storm sw6 wash down to a reservoir, CO sw7 reservoir, CO, in a way this was too easy but the dark silk of the waters 'hit home' and was 'spot on' sw8 gulls on dam, reservoir, CO, another 'tip top' image sw9 towards the Organ mountains, NM, after a storm