AN INDIVIDUAL PLACES AN UNDEVELOPED CANISTER OF FILM, THAT WAS PURCHASED AND EXPOSED IN THE MOMENTS IMMEDIATELY AFTER BEING NOTIFIED OF A DEATH, UPON A BOOKMARK, THAT WAS FORMED FROM A TREE THAT HAD FALLEN IN THE WOODS, THAT MARKS THE PAGE IN THE SCRIPT OF STANLEY KUBRICK’S NAPOLEON, THAT DETAILS HIS PERIOD OF EXILE IN ELBA.

most die lying down

when I suffer from the
fits
as I invariably will

I rotate my shoulders while standing
twisting at the waist
left right
left right
each a sudden jerk
such that the air
escapes in an audible way

it is a mechanized breathing
one of which needs not the
lungs’ expansion
but yields no oxygen
for I fear feeding the fire

the last sound you do not hear will be the one most familiar

and the not what is
but the absence

that space where there is
not

it is about the power of something unperceived
and the perception that it has been so

your signature
signed with an eraser

[WOOD, FILM, BOOK - performance / sculpture]

2012