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  • Spoonfiles, keeps track of observations and vagaries triggered by surprising juxtapositions along the way. Without end in view the operation stops now and then for no particular reason until being resumed or not.

    A sieve forcing chaotically swirling particles to spiral and condense into a string-stream exiting through the hole at the top of the cones. If the string-stream beats gravitation it could beam right up the Bride, attracted by her charge (electricity). However, the phase-space of the sieves is so arranged as to force the string-stream to cascade back into where gravity reigns. How does one know whether efforts of approach lead to proximity or adds distance? Who wins, weak gravitation or strong magnetism? Who arranged the sieves into a trap of deception if not the self hoping for deliverance?

    Two places where shooting operates in the Large Glass: the Nine Shots and the Three Nets, with toy cannon and camera respectively. Common is the idea of an instantaneous effect across distance, as in shots and glimpses. At the other extreme To be looked at (from the Other Side of the Glass) with One Eye, Close to, for Almost an Hour, possibly referring to stretches of numbed vision still being a kind of vision to be considered (cf. the Wittgenstein notion that depiction cannot be depicted still entertained as a distinct impossibility beyond the fact of visual articulation).

     

    A spoonful of light, a lump of burning deer fat contained in the perfect hollow of a spoon-shaped lamp of sandstone, a small day brought into the permanight of the underground, a spoonful of light lasting as long as the satisfaction of a good meal, alimentation and illumination from the same source, hunter’s game.

     

    In the Large Glass Duchamp inscribed a jongleur de centres de gravité or a manieur (soigneur) de gravité, monitoring and caring for the unforeseeable moves of a ball on a shaky tripod table, one foot on the breathing bosom of the Bride. Caravaggio lets St. Matthew support his body on on a stool balancing on the edge.