photography, notes

one solution to consciousness

the problem of consciousness

the halo effect

when we put our mouths to words it is like the body putting its bones to sunlight

later the bones will be in an old rusty pot and used for stirring, or being stirred
and after that the bones will be indistinguishable from the earth

so for now we put our mouths to words and speak our presence, a kind of inverse eating

an extravagant gesture

“At the time of Lewis and Clark, setting the prairies on fire was a well-known signal that meant, ‘Come down to the water.’ It was an extravagant gesture, but we can’t do less. If the landscape reveals one certainty, it is that the extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation. After the extravagant gesture of creation in the first place, the universe has continued to deal exclusively in extravagances, flinging intricacies and colossi down aeons of emptiness, heaping profusions on profligacies with ever fresh vigor. The whole show has been on fire from the word go.











I come down to the water to cool my eyes. But everywhere I look, I see fire: that which isn’t flint is tinder, and the whole world sparks and flames.”

Annie Dillard,  Pilgrim at Tinker Creek