SCOBY (NTP)

for Rhizome Parking Garage (RPG)

SCOBY  = “Symbiotic Culture Of Bacteria and Yeast”

scoby^[1]

softness

parking garage (/structure)

core samples

neon / lensflare

sun

YELLOW?

aspen

real scoby

and picture(s)

photographed (w/ flash, or other light (bike light))

and left there

they accumulate or are cleaned swiftly

leaving images out in public places…?

beginning with two

opening to international

rhizomic  / rhizomatic

multiple layers, recursion

pictures printed and taken to parking garage, photographed in situ,

then collaged atop, and printed, and brought back to parking garage, and photographed again…

oneversion left at parking garage .... hopefully to weather,

small versions of pictures photographed in situ

a separate folio of the entire thing for the archive

audio recording + video

parking garage background

• other images

3 scripts, + “frame” - video → webpage (& companions)

8 scripts

3 → 8 → 3

core samples

neon / lensflare

sun

YELLOW?

aspen

red star [7]

red square, / Chinese Democracy / Tiananmen + Times

complex, difficult to digest,

abstract

bridges

‘freestyle’ or some sense of ‘improvisation’

mushroom^[2] → phallus

script(s)

1

dear

rhizome parking garage

free cash

faux fiction

acid-free plastic

brain -         fats, proteins, sugars

statue of the universe

statue of outer-space

statue of air

statue of fire

statue of grass

statue of dirt

cellular

granular

molecular

(subatomic scale

planetary /cosmic scale(s))

light through darkness = Red

light between / within = Yellow

darkness through light = Blue

before anything can happen

there must be some kind of encounter

event, relationship

do you recycle

have you called your mom recently

the learning of what it is to encounter

soliloquy

obviously

2

hair & cardboard

tabletop view

oblique

(no styrofoam

no plastic)

a series of incidents (events) interconnected media

story without message

occurring to me in one way or another

leads one to believe it is all fun and games

when something essential is taking place.

no eternal reward will forgive us now

for wasting the dawn

you hope that the work helps you evolve

foor for people

(pictures of food cannot feed)

SATANOSSCILLATEMYMETALLICSONATAS

wordless banner

black heart

666

ying yang

thought/work balloon

3

daisy

nuclear blast

red telephone

revolving door

barb-wire

/ thorns

/ …

rhythm

rainforest

beast

jungle

white cube

remain invisible while performing secrets

snake skeleton 3D model

symbiotic culture of bacteria & yeast

heat / hot

magma / volcano

fire

sincerely,

recurring themes

frame story

this is all taking place in a parking garage

universal & particular

one among many,

a characteristic of the rhizome^[3]

& the rhizome as a character

a frame story, [frame]

regarding this trio, the first of a series,

generative spatial texts

(untitled proximities)

a letter to friends, all over the world

quasi-theoretical

“rhizome”

whatever that is

connections that occur between the most disparate and the most similar of objects, places and people; the strange chains of events that link people
… as rhizomatic theory encourages philosophic non-linear and non-restrictive thinking/imagining rhizome as a metaphor for multiple entry points and representations of information into life

always “in-process” or “becoming”

done but not finished

this wave [wave long vert]

reminds me of a great number of tears falling

(recurring themes)

abstraction [img]

& intimacy [img]

• symbolism
• appropriation

illustration or evidence

or artifact, discovered or

made, found, & modified

[slash]

please

don’t fill in the blank ____________  

thank you

articulating the range

with folds

with cuts

reflection & symmetries

variation, expansion, (occupying) inhabitation, fulfillment, iterations

multi-centered, nonhierarchical, dispersed system

…

[ Anthropocene Gradients ] ???

        I’m making another group of these …

each the center of their own universe

the rhizome renews

remains fresh

Mint

      tree

[dead NTP]

okay okay okay

act natural [picture of NTP?]

while rhizomatic growth and inter-relations are unpredictable, this does not mean that they proceed randomly, may break some connections, but connections will always continue to grow in other directions, creating new thoughts and new feelings

rhizomes are swollen underground stems that sometimes grow on or near the surface, but are usually found deeper down, resisting the immediate vagaries of weather conditions the hypothetical exploration of the introspective rhizomatizing world of the imagination under the influence of today's high-frequency, electronic/computerized environment.

we are therefore seeking methods of thinking and writing that can allow us to see and make a difference

entwined & criss-crossing, looping, connectivism, (oblique)

suggests the viney rhizomatic shrubbery of the grotto entangled

wait, what?

all I can do is keep on telling you …

everything she was fighting for

love her better

she matters to you

zigzagging interconnections

irresolvable

unresolvable

simultaneous “irreconcilable realities is not a paradox”

freedom is the poetry of the future

from the concrete the beach

under the parking garage, the beach

concrete from the sand of the beach

there are no seams left in the paving stones and the beach has eroded

the beach is fake and nothing lays beneath

the rhizome beneath the beach

bedrock beneath the beach

Beneath the Beach Seamless Pavement

The Beaches Beneath

“The Beaches Beneath,

The Beaches Beneath,  

The Beaches Beneath …”

learn to swim …

(contortionist, (without avalanche))

Charles Olson would tell us there is no closing parenthesis …

the scale is intended to suggest the underground, the density and striation of rhizomes and roots, of the subterranean

homesick blues, got that old solastalgia,

you don’t need a weatherman, &

no eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn!

precious few remain, and we continue to run ramshackle,

it’s embarrassing… & “beyond the pale”,

… once running wild, what could now?

it’s all on fire, “this is fine”

or else all underwater (my name is Noah)

swim to Avalon, end up in Atlantis,

if you’re lucky …

that’s why I always say, “A MAN OUGHT NOT GAMBLE WITH MORE THAN HE CAN AFFORD TO LOSE”

(one of the polar ice caps is fiction, and the other is reality

and they are both melting, and thus mixing together,

and so it is for us)

I’m just a sentient being trying to make it in the Universe,

true body without organs, all space and eternal, worthy of awe,

so, in a grain of sand … & the grain of sand we saw the universe in^[4]

ends up being mixed into concrete

I never intended to keep saying the same thing, and repeating myself so much, yet these things need saying,

sincerely,

recurring themes

P.S. (plot twist)

imperfect murmur

astonishing panorama,

the mirrored hall

fluid complexities, non-axial

symmetrical, sustainable, &/or

nuclear rainforest,

radiation or irradiating, wild or burning,