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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: inkblood
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 12:54:46 -0500 (EST)
inkblood making of suicide hieroglyph construct of last poem signifier ever day of julu twine death and resurrection double pens in blood and image http://www.alansondheim.org/inkblood.mp4 http://www.alansondheim.org/inkblood1.png http://www.alansondheim.org/inkblood2.png http://www.alansondheim.org/inkblood3.png http://www.alansondheim.org/inkblood4.png http://www.alansondheim.org/inkblood5.png http://www.alansondheim.org/inkblood6.png http://www.alansondheim.org/inkblood7.png i want to do this for you but you may not find a place to stand next to me. and what a meaningless performance which is its strength. 'strengths' is the longest word in english with a single vowel. or so i believe! and it is one of the strengths of this piece that 'strengths' is embodied in the very movements of julu twine, which are in turn embodied in a series of still and moving images. when i finished inkblood i didn't know that ink would flow like that, or glow beneath the water, like so much slaughter. julu's entwined in symbols, caught in words mute with movement, so many token herds on the way to slaughter, beneath the water. every symbol tends towards awkward breath forgetting birth and on the way to death beneath the water, escaping certain slaughter. beyond their slaughter, breath of glowing words beneath the water, death of knowing herds.