I still have the file, but maybe I'll post something new instead. Kara and I were at a costume shop where I was trying out a fantastic bright pink brocade 18th Century dandy costume. They wanted like $250 bucks a day to rent it. There was also a rabbit head that had the look of a grim old god, instead of peter cotton tail. Well, we ended up with two venetian carnivale masks. pretty nice, both cloth board with sort of a low white fur. One is the standard human face, the other is the commedia dell arte plague doctor mask which looks sort of like a big nose or beak. not sure what to do with them yet, and I really wanted to do a kind of little film using the heavily brocaded and patterned dandy suit while wearing the rabbit head. the idea was this.
I read an article about viruses being perhaps part of the fundamental construction of life called unintelligent design. today i was brainstorming and came up with the idea of viruses being a sort of transcription space for the early protists, like a kind of storage system albeit one which was completely random and unconscious. at any rate, then i started to re:consider endosymbiosis and did a search for viral endosymbiosis which led me to Bell's theory of Viral Eukaryogenesis which places virality at the nucleus of the cell.. so anyway, and very sorry to ramble like this, i thought since part of the rhetoric of the 'intelligent design' theory was 'man is like finding a pocket watch in the forest' that i would connect that to the Alice in Wonderland Story, and maybe have a grim dandy bunny god hiding pocket watches in the forest or if that seemed too pro-I.D. I would have the bunny find the watch but it would be broken.. or maybe the bunny would rape alice, kill her.. something brutal and unintelligent or stick a pocket watch in her mouth i dont know what anyway i hadnt really gotten out of the brainstorming phase and was just trying to wrap my mind around how a film like that would work, how to make it able to question both sides of the argument in less literalistic terms than "does God exist" not even really sure i want to get into any theological questions, but as religion seems sort of part of the social dynamic these days, there may be something interesting about interrogating those structures.. i like the idea of a promiscuity, a protean unconscious (ie a kind of dreaming) like a witches cauldron or hindu cosmology and the rabbit represents that "omnisexual" promiscuity of forms by "omnisexual" i want to reflect the polymorphous perverse but in a way opposite to say a Hegelian progression, this is a capricious god, an insane grim dandy god whose reasoning is monstrous and enacted through monsters caprichos.. so instead of 'intelligent design' and Christo-hegelian-Rationalistic-Linear-Telos we get a sort of Teratological-ontological-non-linear primordial caprichos world where as in Goya "the sleep of reason breeds monsters" but here, various forms of 'reason' or in our more utilitarian and clipped modernism the 'rationale' which sounds like 'organelle' become equally monstrous to one another, ie the historical grotesque.. as if somehow the agencylessness of things could come to be a holiness, a form of the divine if people could understand the miracle of that how OPEN the universe is to our TOUCH and yet how unstable, how frail which rings very zen to me sorry i am stewing on this all morning just want to get something going i post picture of clean white plague doctor mask from venice i have lovely mask from venice i love mask thank you Smaragdina Osirimadoanna lanny
