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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: uncanny fossilizations of the still and immobilized image
Date: Fri, 11 May 2018 22:44:04 -0400 (EDT)
uncanny fossilizations of the still and immobilized image http://www.alansondheim.org/ashf001.jpg flowering tree with ghost and borderline phenomena; who would imagine that such immobility leads to the continuation of one or another species? http://www.alansondheim.org/ashf023.jpg lichen occlusions and contradistinctions, mostly from a single unidentified species; there is room for everyone, but, within the paralysis of the unmoving image, it's difficult to imagine that anything but straightforward reproducibility _of the image itself_ would be the result of its immersion in time. http://www.alansondheim.org/ashf059.jpg another uncanny border, against an unidentified tree lies dryad's saddle or hawks wing or pheasant back mushroom, _polyporus squamosus,_ whose past and future are both unknown; the image rests on the edge of the scythe blade of time, neither here nor there, neither before or after. the relative deadness of such images, and, hence, relative deadness of our selves, asserts itself; as barthes might say, all images are images of death; as i might say, not in relation to time, but to the prevalence of digital media which always appear on the verge of the shimmer or other untoward movement. http://www.alansondheim.org/ashf080.jpg what is at work here is what i call the spectral mother, immersion into the beyond of the variegated colorations of the world. for in truth, i see to some extent into the ultraviolet, and these flowers glowed brilliantly in such, against the emergent dusk; thus what may not move in one direction, may move in another, allowing us to take safe harbor there, waiting to see beyond, into what the effusions of the future may bring, in spite of, or perhaps due to, our absence in this and any other worlds one might conjure down.