Jacob's ladder

Have you seen this image that Jan regularly uses in his lectures, with two well-t0-do man playing chess, one is about to make a move with a chess piece. The man's little finger touches the edge of a patio where happens to be a dog. Maybe you now how he embeds this image in his talks, but I thought about the flattening and flickering of the actual depiction that happens through this touching of the finger with something out of physical reach. The dog or other animals are used in illuminated manuscripts as well. Here animals fill space left at the end of lines in more decorative way, nevertheless I think the dog in the painting also merely serves as a decoration, an ornamental curvature. Besides being that floating ornament in space, it also breaks the continuity of time, a sort of time knot. This could be a very fantastical interpretation, because I don't have the image in front of me. Your image with the hand, the door and the vanishing point reminded me of Jan's image. Where did you take it from and what's your interest in it?

After reading your crazy poem I did some undirected search and found this description about the ornamentation in the 'book of kells':

"the initials are conceived as elastic forms expanding and contracting with a pulsating rythm. The kinetic energy of their contours escapes into freely drawn appendices, a spiral line which in turn generates new curvilineair motifs."


The other thing I came across, connected to the 'wayward punctuation' is the so called The McBee Keysort System for Mechanically Sorting Folklore Data...



This is perforation has little to do with 'the wayward punctuation without equilibrium', but an interesting find that I wanted to share.

Someone experienced the video with the stuttered leafing as being caught in a time knot, giving cards out and retreating again.

A fluidity-
An extreme equilibrium (slow evolving) that happens when the images absorb and saturate the forms, gestures to the point of excess and exhaustion. A condensation that ultimately leaves nothing left to say, that is silence.
This video is a fiction, maybe, but in reality there are some forms that have a slow, stagnant life as well.

An interruption or punctuation-
Symptomatic in nature, a disturbance that happens on the surface as an effect created by a mechanical intervention. At the same this effect creates a surface for encounter, away from the moment of recording toward something that is more like a memory (or trauma?). I mean encounter in a positive sense in that you're not asked to enter an unmediated mental state.

one crazy image to go with your poem:


and a couple of title suggestions and plan for the space: