AN INDIVIDUAL PLACES A SINGLE GRAIN OF SAND COLLECTED FROM THE LARGEST SAND DUNE IN NORTH AMERICA UPON A COWHIDE PILLOW, HE THEN SUSPENDS AN ALVAR AALTO DESIGNED PENDANT LAMP TO JUST ABOVE THE SURFACE OF THE PILLOW.

the whole
Gesamtkunstwerk

all others always filled with something I was long in coming to arrive upon
all others always filled ahead of me

vocabulary fails
what is one word without all others
when my back is cold
and my bladder is full

and the various strains of ideas
glitter on the floor
exhaustion is not the word
the letters cannot find their form

this is the way in which the individual parts
come to form a hole
lucidly
a puddle of mud
a pillow of necessity

Aalto said:
“... in nature standardisation occurs mainly in connection with the smallest possible units: cells.”

a critical mass of lowest common denominators
rising up my thigh

erections have been born of less
Zapatismo

once blown away
La Poya

located by the trychel strapped to my neck
I am returned to the herd

I will return to the mass
Désalpe

I will return as elemental as I had departed
but in no way the same

there is a place called Zapata Ranch
in the San Luis Valley
where the cattle trample the dirt
breaking it down into smaller pieces
smaller pieces that are then broken down into smaller pieces
by the forcefully applied hooves
the smallest of these particles form these dunes
barren and shifting
dead and alive

someone must pain for the high desert
someone must decide the details
someone must trample the valley
someone must eat the Molke
someone must be trampled

“For everyone, everything. For us, nothing”

the closed system that we are
reoccurring as it may be

of the smallest things we no longer want
you are the most complete

one decision
independent of all other possible decisions
coupled with all other decisions
decided upon independently

[SAND, PILLOW, PENDANT LIGHT - sculpture]

2014