Perfumed Nightmare

~ for Paolo Javier

Call this a non-site
Mental images to scale
History your ways
Are not always ours
What does a wind matter
What the Gods of distant surplus
Upping the ante frame
By frame?

Interlocuted to this same
Voice same Being which *is* a pictured
Wind the "imaged sea" (Crane)
Symbols to scale allegory
Wreck thought to save thinking
With a capital "-Ing" what is
The capital of gumball production?
Why is whitey going
To the moon again, yo?

Thinking with a capital "-Ing"
The gerund of your prayers
-Here- & -Here- & -Here-
& -Here- wherever your
Camera goes in this actual
World of bridges what the Gods
Of surplus can't cross
Both too small and too big
For their sensible threshholds

In the final shots of your film
You remind me this world is
A bardo for that "other" (that other
Which is also for *this*) the actors
In masks like Gods among men
Impersonating a thousand devils
Of a wind already blown

From paradise your own (it must
First be singular) an Iran of praxis
A Fillipines of overcoming...
These voices over-dubbed in your head
Circle mental images to scale
The literal fact no allegory
Rides above your arduous path.

Rococo Rabbit Bouquat (Event)

Come to the Ninth Annual Bouquat. Hosted by Abby Walton...

Bardo Is My Business (Meatyard, My Neighbor)

Army Of Roses (Non-Site)

This case
is a place
in the noon

tide of here
an army
of roses

collecting
their bounty
the struggle

for eternity
within time
the socius

the facts
of our being
beside.

Brief Address after David Levi Strauss

The case is everything in the world that resists.
Seeing and witnessing you read on Chile &
Pinochet--Allende's assasination, "their" September
11th--this past weekend, sent me back to Gordon
Matta Clark's work & a project I did after him

called "Towards Exterior" ostensibly about the
problems of alterity and ethics his work evidences.
I recalled that his father was the European-em-
braced Matta of Surrealism & revolutionary politics
but that he took his mother's name, Clark, after a trip

to Chile not long before Allende's "removal" from
power. This decision interests me, compels me in fact,
as an uncanny transference between gendered cultural
geneologies. Is the assuming of the maternal name,
a name that within Latin-American and Jewish cultures

remains dominant for establishing & preserving identity,
significant of a larger social upheaval, disaster or
occultation not yet occured as history? What is in this rep-
etition of dates that won't "go away," that therefore remains
impossible in historicity or historical structures--the Real

(Lacan) or Truth-Event (Badiou)? Matta Clark's radical
Gnostical materialities lead me to an important
convergence between "spirit" (so called), artistic
labor, and politics; his brief life seeming an allegory
of these tragically incommensurable categories.