IN AN OTHERWISE EMPTY ROOM A 35MM SLIDE MADE FROM A COMPOSITE OF 48 HIGH RESOLUTION DIGITAL IMAGES TAKEN FROM THE HUBBLE TELESCOPE OF THE CARINA NEBULA (ISSUED IN HONOR OF THE TELESCOPE’S 17TH ANNIVERSARY) IS PROJECTED THROUGH AN ANTIQUE MAGIC LANTERN.

the distance from you to me
...and when I say you, I mean you then, I don’t know you now
...and when I say me, I mean me now, I don’t know me then

the distance from you,
there,
then,
plus the distance to me,
here,
now...

makes for an easier examination of then...
now...
and consequently now...
now...

Now then...
that brings us to contemporary contemplations on contemporaneity
or all the same: origins
our origins are origins themselves:
the causes that were in operation before this itself was brought into being

then our histories are now one composite history
in the inception and creation of then to now
the collapsing of time and space that IS seeking one’s origins
it’s fucking confusing
total confusion

yet it’s bigger and it’s smaller than all of that

it’s neither a macrocosm nor microcosm
just a             -cosm
a combining form
and it’s as close to enlightenment as I’ll ever find
that space
that space above
that’s the space where I’m coming from
same as, opposite of, and adjacent to, the one that you respectively then, now, and always inhabit

[ANTIQUE MAGIC LANTERN, 35MM SLIDE  - sculpture]

2010