it kind of took on the qualities of a sea-creatyrr for me
and seem to express some form of alienation, made me think
of Brecht's concept of the Verfremdung which has its parallels
in poetics theory (can't think of the word) "make it strange"
by verfremdung i get a sense of the hand's alienation from the body
and then there is the moment when the space between the fingers
became a kind of illuminated vagina which made me think of both
post-strucuralism in the sense of one series abruptly generating
a different series by a change in perspektiv
but it also made me think of the Hinayâna Sarvâstivâdin
of the infinite momentary dharmas we assemble
into intelligibility
and of ignorance as cause, the whole panoply of buddhist
references coming out of that hand as a mudra
but a floppy mudra moving between series
and Mary herself like a chimera of 19th century painting
like an echo of Courbet but blurred
to become a sphinx of optics, something verging
on the melting subconscious forms of Redon
though not melancholic
almost sarcastic
the cocky polysemous?
there is a kind of chickenhouse quality to it as well
holding up the claw
it even looks like a chicken foot at one point
anyhow some short circuiting
duhkha // a chariot axle not working quite right
the hand a hydra in the foreground
a shimmering emblem of changeable appearance
a Vertumnus-Mudra
in the background
the stable authentic ground of 'Mary"
or Maybe its Just lewis
Monkeying w/ the camera
:)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan Sondheim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA>
Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2006 1:28 PM
Subject: Re: gift - QuickTime video
not sure how this is to be 'read' but it's beautiful - the hand looks a
lot like a child's and i found myself moving through a number of
narratives simultaneously - alan
On Sat, 21 Jan 2006, Lewis LaCook wrote:
http://www.lewislacook.org/netcinema/gift.mov
for Mary
QuickTime video, 2006
1 minute 38 seconds
5.88 MB
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