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FIVE ARROWS POINTING SOME WAY, SOMEWHERE And when you’ve lost your power as a weapon, there is nothing left to do but turn into a symbol. And as a new symbol you often have to shed past used parts – maybe your shaft, your point. And you come to terms with that reality...

C. Wells – 行为:五支箭头,向某路,向某处

FIVE ARROWS, POINTING SOME WAY, SOMEWHERE 五支箭头,向某路,向某处 an in situ performance for BLDG 333, Markham, ON 行为表演 加拿大安大略省万锦市BLDG333 2022-06-11 And when you’ve lost your power as a weapon, there is nothing left to do but turn into a symbol. And as a new symbol you often...

nay, brr, hood (1998)

nay It is understood that a man who reads silently, mingles well in a crowd. There is an ever-present impetus held by a maker, to vehemently state what one’s work is not about. To make things clear. Nod to nod to other notions, not to smile at similes but instead, to...

Look Left Look Right (2017)

Look Left. Look Left. If I asked you to try and create in your head the sound of the highest pitch possible and if you thought about the sound and my asking of this, you would look to the left. Your eyes would look left. And if this sound that you have never heard,...

Frôlement (2019)

In many ways, frottage seems a passe activity. Actions of the hand and its interest in rubbing and touching to produce an impression with qualities particular to, connote a feeling of memory, an ersatz or somehow the inadequacies of translating a poem. Resulting...

Bible (1999)

From the Files of the Board of Wayne County Road Commissioners,Detroit, MichiganCenter Line on Pavements This line was first used by the Wayne County Road Commission in 1911. Mr. Hines conceived of the idea on Huron River Drive while on an inspection trip of some...

mar, fee, tea (2004)

mar SAME BRUSH IN THE SAME HAND OF THE SAME MAN WITH THE SAME CAN. Line markers are terra tatoos. Surfaced with the certainty of a civic gavel. Ribboned by warrant, global margins in, out, to and from a city… Gaia’s constant enfaced endemic enclaves - ensigned,...

Bread And Butter, Bread And Butter (2012)

BREAD AND BUTTER, BREAD AND BUTTER (2012) And Edward’s back hurt. Too much the night before in Dutchtown. The new floors at Arbeiter Hall seemed fine and the program was not that taxing, but the rumbling of the seat is the enemy today. It may have been those damn...

Topophilia, My Love (2007)

When in the 1960’s, the term ‘topophilia’ was coined (’62 by Yi Fu-Tuan), the U.S.A. Highway Act was only 5 years old and its 41,000-mile interstate plan was just beginning. An enigmatic term, topophilia belonged to the disciplines of geography, sociology and...

Eleven Statements about Line Markers (2003)

Eleven Statements about Line Markers: Line markers are cultural compass cards, worldly in scope. Line markers are graffiti’s distant cousin, a tag in time, if not actually in creative step. Line markers are compliance and familiarity tenuously balanced by vigilance...

Bellman (2018)

Line marker works develop specific meanings associated with place from the colloquial to the global. Further, place has been attached to both fact (the civic regulations we live with) and fiction (the storytelling that enriches our lives). The surface language of...

nein, teen, 11 (2001)

nein The psychology of a tier. Hitler met with Willy Hof and then with Fritz Todt, and the Autobahn changed from a capitalist bourgeois waste of money to a National Socialist machine,’Volksgemeinschaft’ was the word. Existing precursors, including experimental...

eh, dah, be (1996)

eh A man walks into a restaurant he has never been to before. A second man walks up to him that he has never seen before. The second man leads the first down a corridor he has never walked through before. A chair is offered that he has never sat in before. A menu is...