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PART 2 : RECORDING

[Headphones are recommended for listening to the recordings]

To the right are recordings of each of us reading our text generated in response to the prompt, What Resists?

 

Invitation to you — the reader/listener: Explore the sound files by playing, pausing, muting  they can be played singularly and in combination. We are interested in possibilities of the space  or even textorium — that is opened up in the act of (listening to) reading? 

PART 1: MARKET SQUARE, Vaasa,  June 2022

Details of exploration:

This phase of exploration was initiated by a series of prompts: (1) What Resists?, (2) Pulls of Attraction and (3) To Follow.


 

 

SCORE/ARTEFACTS: WHAT RESISTS?


 

Prompt: WHAT ESCAPES | RESISTS DESCRIPTION | WHAT IS LEFT OUT?

Location: Scanning (10 steps, every 3 mins, in a line)

Duration: 30 minutes writing

Prompt: PULLS OF ATTRACTION

Location: Moving in the square

Duration: 30 minutes of writing

Prompt: TO FOLLOW

Location: Moving in the square

Duration: 30 minutes writing

 

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In the end, everything that is living and breathing and felt right now escapes, resists, will be left out. This sense of anticipation, the waiting to begin. The photograph I just took is not this experience  experiences unfold in time, have a temporal dimension, moreover, are necessarily felt. Everything that escapes  so many felt senses in the space, so many imperceptible registers of sensation and of sensing.

 

Time escapes. I am not even sure what is meant by this, by this sense of time, what is this time that escapes and leaves no trace.

 

I look at the clock. It moves between the temperature and the time. In the hours spent here tonight, the temperature has risen from 17 – 20 degrees, time has passed between 19.00 and 20.22. But what can be held of that. Tomorrow much of this felt sense, I will have lost. Forgotten. All the moment by moment modulation of attention, second by second shifts and fluctuations of time’s unfolding.

 

Life unfolding.

Now unfolding.

This unfolding.

Here unfolding.

All unfolding.

 

I am counting steps. Counting as way of measuring. So much cannot be counted, cannot be accounted for.

 

All that cannot be accounted for.

What cannot be accounted for?

What does this mean?

Cannot be named and measured?

Cannot be written:

In books.

In the records.

In the archive.

In the histories.

In the news.

In the memories.

In the libraries.

 

But maybe in the:

The stories.

The songs.

The whispers.

The dreams.

The sighs.

The shadows.

 

Our shadows now, marked long on the cobbled floor.

The curiosity of that group and the courage of the one who came to ask.

 

Curiosity. Curiosity escapes.

Resists. Resists. Seeps. Leaks.

Breaches boundaries where it does not officially belong.

Curiosity as an aliveness, a being alive in and to the world.

 

All the aliveness that has passed here, over all that time.

Yet no trace, hardly any trace. Save for a few marks and scratches on the surface of the floor. All that time erased, no, not erased, for time never really was, was never a ‘thing’ to try to erase, always an unfolding.

 

Unfolding, to unfold. All that time folded into objects and surfaces and things.

Breath and pulse and felt sense. All the ing-ing, the breathing, the pulsing, the feeling.

 

This writing  all that will remain is the writing and not the writing. Only the object of writing and not its experience, not the writing writing. The experience of writing (verb) resists writing (noun).

 

Writing resists itself.

Writing resists writing.

Thinking resists thought.

Knowing resists knowledge.

 

Writing escapes writing.

Thinking escapes thought.

Knowing escapes knowledge.

 

All verbs resist or escape their nouning.

Naming resists names.

 

The ing-ing of aliveness resists form, or rather static form, for form is always a little formless, always a little still in flux.

 

What escapes?

What will be lost or what may be liberated? Lost or liberated?

Forgotten or freed?

 

I cannot know how you are feeling now, what is holding your attention?

You in the sun writing, whilst I am now in the shade.

We are sharing this action together, but I can never of know the experience for you.

Somethings are never able to be fully shared.

 

What escapes, what resists?

Is this also what cannot be shared?

What cannot be shared?

What cannot be shared (in language)?

What cannot be communicated?

What remains undisclosed, undisclosable still?

 

What will I forget?

What have I already forgotten?

What leaks and seeps and spills beyond all means of capture and control?

What leaks and seeps and spills beyond our action into the square, into other’s lives?

 

Will they take it with them?

We will never really know.

We will never really know how.

You never know.

You never know for sure.

 

The text begins and sets in motion a train of thought, or rather of thinking-writing, the unfolding of word after word.

In every word, so much escapes.

So many possible trajectories of exploration, abandoned or discounted.

So many things missed or left unsaid.

What triggers? What calls?

First movements, movings, stirring of activity in the stillness of the square.

Following  you take my eyes with you.

Wondering  where do you go?

No, I am not wondering about that. My attention stops as soon as you leave this frame.

It is like the square is a sheet of paper, movements are trajectories of drawn lines.

A spiderweb of itineraries taken.

Dense patterns of movement cross the corners and the edges, turning the diagrammed shape of the square gradually in the direction of an irregular hexagon, octagon, and so on, towards circle. Each route shaves off a section of the square, through the invisible trace of desire lines and short cuts.

Still no-one really crosses the centre of the square.

 

The wind makes other itineraries.

Tree blossom or leaf, fallen in the cracks catches the wind, is caught by the wind.

Pale yellow blooms to intense cerise edges. These small reminders of Spring now gathering on the crevices between the cobbles.

The wind brings animation. The blossom leaves look like small boats in a dense network of canals. A labyrinth of criss-crossing lanes and gullies.

 

Petal remnants gather in the corners between one cobble and another. Occasionally one breaks free and rolls with the wind across the square.

 

Circles of men in the cafes, meeting.

Gathering like the clustered petals and leaves.

 

A woman crosses the square with two hoola hoops, green and red.

A man in a checked shirt smokes, and the small child plays.

 

Brands try to pull my attention yet mostly fail. They have such a deadening effect on the square. Advertisements work through the pull of attention or of attraction. No not attraction, rather coercion. For attraction is a rather more fragile and fleeting experience  not so easy to control and predict. Advertisements work hard to tempt, seeking the formula that will best seduce. Branding is the most curious of advertisements  often just a name or sign. Names in giant letters marking out a territory. 

 

Marking, naming. Yet the large branded names do not have the pull of attraction, in fact, rather they somehow repel, oppress. Suffocating signage at the edges of the square. Dead signs, incommunicable signs, like large shouts. Failing to call, failing to connect, failing to care. A noisy background none the less, difficult to ignore.

 

Rhythms of movement and of attention. The regular flap of the flag on the breeze, heals meeting stone, gull’s cry.

 

A young boy turns his head to look back at the ice-cream stall that he has just walked past.

Head turning. What is it to turn one’s head or have one’s head turned?

To turn one’s attention, the physicality of the turn.

 

Head turns and eye lines.

What patterns of attention?

 

Eyes pull the attention. At times it is as if the eyes have a will of their own, are so easily bored and restless, refusing to settle and still, always on the look-out for something else.

 

The ears hear, but can remain passive, receptive. Just hearing.

But the eyes somehow want to know, want to see more, want to get closer.

What is it?

What was it?

What is that?

Eyes and names.

 

Looking back, looking again.

Attention has a different register to this endless searching of the eyes. It draws one closer, holds the gaze steady. Still, is it attention that draws one closer, or the object of one’s attention or attraction? Which comes first attraction or attention? How is the draw of attention. Writing of attention?

 

My attention is pulled, or even absorbed by the act of writing. Writing stills me, allows me to begin to settle. Towards the attraction of this other realm, this page-realm, a space of blue lines on pale page. Uncluttered by all the signs and noise and dust and flapping flags and banners and branded names. An open space. A space opens in a space. It feels like the wind drops as I settle into the writing, the background noise somehow quietens. I can hear my own breath once more.

 

Writing and the body. Writing as a pathway back. There is too much in this space pulling at my attention, pulling at my attention without attraction. More like a sense of nag. Attention is easily scattered in manifold directions.

 

Hold still. Attend.

 

Attraction can unsettle, for it can sometimes feel like such a surface lure, the pull of immediate gratification, attention drawn this way and that, by one thing and then another.

 

Attraction does not lead to attention in this sense, but rather it is through attention that attraction blooms. Things becoming more attractive somehow through the bringing of attention, of care.

 

My experience is that is does not work the other way around. The pull of attraction, in fact, depletes or disperse or even confuses my attention, rendering it unsettled, indeed, unable to connect.

 

Connection and attraction.

To let attraction come through attention, not to seek it, not to chase it.

Attraction  all the games and tricks of seduction, all the devices and ruses of luring someone in. What rules of attraction, what operations and ploys.

 

The square seems to work against the laws of attraction  its frame somehow operates as a means of anti-desire. Trucks block the sight lines of café stall, obstructing them from view. Market stall seem isolated and abandoned, as though remaining long after closing time.

 

Suddenly the warm sun on my face. I close my eyes.

Not to follow this, but just to feel it.

Attention like the spreading warmth of the sun on my face.

 

Singularities.

To attend to the uniqueness of all things, to stay, to remain attentive.

Remaining attracted, remaining in connection.

 

 

                                          ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ /// ‘’’’’’’’’

 

‘’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’    ‘’’’’ ‘’’’    ‘’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’ ~~~~~ !!! ooooooooooooo

 

-       cccccccccccccccc // ;;;;;;; ‘’’’’’’’’ ,,,,,,,,,’’’’’’’’// ‘’ ‘’’ ‘’’’ ,,,,,,,,,,,

 

I feel I have slipped into drawing, as if to mark this I shift to pencil from a pen. Following sounds has somehow pulled me away from language, and I am struggling to find a way back. Language fractures into a hybrid of signifying signs and symbols, a system of markers for notating trajectories and intensities of sound.

 

Upwards and away from the square, away from its formations of lines and cobbles and pathways. A swift curves a line. A gull loops and drop, catches the wind again and returns to orbiting the square. A turn swoops low to the ground, and a sparrow comes close to my side. Again, I am spotting, I am naming.

 

A segment of rainbow suddenly colours the greying skies.

 

I wish I knew the words for the different cloud formations  could discern cirrus from cumulus, differentiate nuance within the common naming of ‘cloud’.

 

There are existing names, names of categorising and of differentiation, for recognising and being able to classify.

 

Bird names, cloud names, the names of specific rock and stone, and grasses. Brand names loom large.

 

But then to work with these names only brings the seething world under the control of existing taxonomies and systems.

 

New ways of calling  a poetics of observation?

 

I follow the rainbow and it disappears behind the roof of Apteeki Apotek, just to the right of a satellite dish.

 

A woman looks back to follow my actions, she pushes her bike across the square, takes the seat and rides away.

 

A woman clutching a plastic bag shuffles across the square. I imagine she is often followed, but is she cared for.

 

To follow, to care for, to attend to. I do not know the etymology of ‘follow’. But I think at this moment of the word ‘swallow’, reminded by the swallow or is it the swift that screeches on the wind.

 

Follow.
Swallow.

Fallow.

 

Follow and fallow.

I wonder why ‘swallow’ is pronounced like ‘swollow’, as if it had an ‘o’, and ‘fallow’ is not pronounced like ‘follow’, but rather sounding the ‘a’.

 

Strange idiosyncrasies of the English language.  

 

Etymology follows a word to its origins. A word without origins, or source  like an acousmatic sound.

 

A word devoid of source or origin.

Pure word.

Pure sound.

Origin-less words.

 

To follow a word to its origins is also to take care, to be careful how one works with words.

 

Follow.

Fallow.

Swallow.

 

Swallow as in a species of bird, or to ingest, or to take in, make disappear.

All these many meanings.

 

Writing as a following, a following which somehow follows itself.

To follow the incipient thought in formation, following something as nebulous as the clouds which now part to reveal blue.

 

Following, fallowing.

Fallowing of language  allowing it to rest, in order for words to seed and grow.

To follow, to keep up with, to stay with, to stay in touch.

 

Do you follow me?

Do you understand?

 

I follow you. I am with you. You have not lost me (yet).

I follow, I am still following.

 

To follow is to commit, to bring to the fullness of one’s attention. To here and not to there, with this and not with that. Try to follow more than one impulse and notice the dithering indecision that ensues.

 

Do I go this way with you or that way with the others?

 

To follow  what is yet to come.

Left to be continued, still incomplete.

Day follows night, night follows day.

Some events are predictable, others are more unfathomable, harder to determine in advance.

 

I begin to write and yet I do not know what will follow, what will unfold, what will ensue. I follow the writing but do not know where it will lead.

 

To follow a path.

To follow in the footsteps of.

To follow the lead.

To follow the crowd.

To follow a trend.

To follow a team.

 

 

Pull of attraction 11:20am / 18°

 

Slowly strolling while the wind passes through the fingers, the hair, the ears, the next, the trees, the stone, the buildings, the square.

The sight gets to wander and encounter. Objects on the floor, hear down, cabizbaja. The eye wander. The sight stops. Some cobblestones are mode a la intemperie without much dirt to cover their sides. I can see almost 3 or 4 cm deep. Trash on the floor, random stuff. A lot of cigarette butts and nicotine baggies. People around dwelling in the square, sitting down, having a memento. Others walk through walking with a purpose. I recognize some people. I encounter them in my path. I turn my head above from the ground, I raise my chin and encounter the street light lamps, not in poles but held with cables that dance to the rhythm of the wind.

I reach another point of the square. I found another person. I look at the trees and see a nice stone. I put it in my bag. I observe and realise that most of the tree spots have a stone inside the cage where the trees are held. Is this a thing? I mean, is this stone playing something purposeful? I found a stone that seems to be more part of the urban architecture. I take it with me, but don’t put it in my bag yet. I intend to. I see the stone I had taken inside my bag and try to figure out where it comes from. I can’t recognize any surface. An old man is strolling my way. He reaches for his bike, opens the lock, takes away the chain. Opens the second lock. Moves slowly, prepares his sleeves, his vest, checks his pockets, and walks aways with the bike. He hops on top of it and crosses the square riding the bike. I have swapped the rocks now. I took out the one I initially took and took the cube looking one which I can actually see where it belongs on/in the square.

Walking and only strolling and observing made me feel nostalgic.

No sé de dónde viene la nostalgia. O nostalgia relacionada a que. Automáticamente quiero entrar a un juego de “recuerdo…”

Recuerdo mis caminatas solitarias en Puebla

Recuerdo los días nublados, en silencio, sin hablar, observando y pensando

Recuerdo las calles, las esquinas, las tuberías, esos árboles horribles chiquititos que tan solo generan polvadera

Recuerdo el panteón

Recuerdo a mi padre

Recuerdo el sótano

Recuerdo los recortes, las obleas, los colores

Recuerdo a mi madre, acostada viendo el teléfono o leyendo, comiendo algún tipo de dulce o botana. Sus piernas dobladas con las plantas del pie sobre la cama.

Recuerdo la cama que ya no está, la mesa que ya no está, el refri que ya no está.

“Come back” a voice says. “Come back to the square. Come back to what you see here, in front of you, get out of your head, count, see, write”.

 

20:20h / 20° - 30 min

 

What is left out (resists description or storytelling)

 

Point 1 — Everything but these words on the notebook are out. Images. Never the sound. Always the sound. My back is out. Everything behind me.

 

Point 2  As something comes closer, everything else disappears and is left behind.

The body of the shadows crossing in front of me. A seagull.

When looking at my shadow, I am left outside. What doesn}t belong to the square? Is not belonging the same as being left out?

 

Point 3  The sun. The people. El lenguaje. Los pajaros. La gente. Las onomatopeyas reinan en este terreno. La acusmática se sienta a su lado. Asieta se sienta, no se sienta, asiento. Siempre hay un ass en asiento. No hay asiento sin ass. Las ruedas del carrito. Los pasos.

(Maybe people are left out by not knowing what we are doing  but someone asked. He said “have fun”. I intend to).

 

Point 4  (Now I really feel observed)

El sol se ha quedado a mis espaldas. Está ahora detrás del edificio y la sombra reina. El calor se ha quedado atrás. Lo acogedor del sol vespertino. La gente está detrás. El monumento está detrás, el supermercado K está detrás. Las bancas del paseo están detrás. La fuente, las tiendas (o algunas tiendas) departamentales.

 

Point 5  Sumergida en la sombra que dan los edificios. Todas las piedras por las que he caminado están detrás.

 

Cada vez más y más la voz de las personas se hace más y más tenue. No se si siguen ahí o ellas también se están moviendo. Ahora los escucho, ahí están.

Es “tarde” y los puestos ya no están abiertos. Las playeras, no he visto las playeras ¿Dónde están las playeras?

Mi energía también está quedando atrás, o al menos se esta llendo a algun lugar diferente de aquí.

 

Sexto punto en la plaza  Así como muchas cosas quedan atrás muchas otras delante. El encuentro. Are the buildings out from the square? Is the limit not part of the entity?

 

19:43H /19° - 30 min

 

To follow

 

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FROM THE SQUARE. IN THE SQUARE. WHILE IN THE SQUARE. WITHIN THE SQUARE.

 

TO FOLLOW

 

Words that I can read but not understand.

In order of appearance, I’m following my aesthetic preferences

 

LYCKLIG

 

KAIKKI

 

                                               älä

 

 

Buffet

AMARILLO

                                                          Butcher Banker

 

 

LEDIGA


 

                        Helpoimman

 

 

Ulko-ovien

 

 

An automatic door opens suddenly as I pass by.

 

A man who looks like David Beckham is advertising for a brand of watches. His heavily tattooed left hand which carries the watch reads LOVE. In the background, a badly photoshopped football hovering in the air.

 

Läällää myös

 

To follow Umlauts counterclockwise around the square.

 

A word, almost impossible to read:

 

Polkupyöräsäilytys

 

Kesä in combination with a pair of lacquer white slides.

 

Snäppet

 

Buchstaben aufschnappen. Gleaning Finnish words from screens, windows, signs.

 

To place them here.

 

Waiting for their effects to happen

 

in the faces of those who understand. Like you

 

Pysäköinnillä

 

It’s a bit like eating candys in the dark

 

Läällää myös

 

WHAT ESCAPES (RESISTS DESCRIPTION)

 

Teenspirit

Two girls carrying a diamond diadem in their hair

that glitters in the late sun

How it feels to walk side by side across the square

To look at each other and laugh

To be in full diamond pride

What escapes is where they are now

I can’t see them anymore

What escapes is where this writing wants to go with me

10 steps to the front

10 min later

10 years later

 

 

 

PULL OF ATTRACTION

 

Following random passers-by, being pulled into the speed of their steps and walking style. That man that walks slowly in direction of the mall. That woman that comes out of the mall and locks her bike. That tall guy that walks fast across the square. I can’t keep up with his pace. A white poodle sniffing at a bunch of flowers next to a market stand. Kartoffeln, Paprika, Blaubeeren, Erdbeeren, Erbsen. I’m pulled into the puffed up hair on its head. A humming sound pulls me away. I find a row of benches. Like a train without a shell. Each bench occupied by a man or two. Elderly men, most of them equipped with big bags, collectors of bottles, drinkers and no-drinkers, all sitting in the same direction. The strong feeling of having time overcomes me. I sit down. How it must be to have time. The man who sits on the other side of the bench just sits. No phone, no newspaper. I try just to sit, too. Just that. A rolling walker. A newspaper moving in the wind. Two passer-bys study the offers of ice cream through the metal grid of a closed kiosk. Strawberry, vanilla, blue berry, caramel.

 

Inhabiting another being for a while: That man. That poodle. This situation.

 

I change bench. A man sits down opposite me. Can I smoke? he signals. Another man with a bike and bag full of bottles comes by. Can I sit here? he asks, sits down at the end of the long bench. The two men start to talk. Anyone who sits in this invisible train I reckon agrees to be talked at. They ask me what I am. What I am doing here. I make a movement with my pen gesturing writing, pointing at the market square.  I take out a chocolate bar. This seems to be a trigger for the man next to me who takes out a white cardboard box, opens it and offers the ingredients to me: Pastries with and without cream, donuts. Two other men, bottle collectors come by and the man offers the sweets to them, too.

 

A finger touching the creamy light brown glaze of a bonelike pastry.

 

Yorbas is my name the man says in Finnish pointing at himself. Cordula, I say. He tries to repeat my name. Breasjfklasjdfjsla, he says. Question mark. We laugh. Ciao Yorbas, I say, as he walks off to the next bench.

 

 

 

att följa

to follow

 

19.42-20.22

 

jag följer

efter

en klargrön stol

en stolpe med ett klot längst upp i linje med en lyktstolpe med en skylt för parkering

klotet rostar, den grågröna färgen flagnar

 

annonsering förbjudet

härligt att se dig

let’s work together

sleep well

käytä pyörätietä

älä koske tolppiin ja köysiin

anna tietä suojatiellä

vapaata toimitilaa

fresh and new

tervetuloa töihin

pysähdy punaisiin

helpoimman kautta

tomgång förbjuden

oulu

maksa puhelimella

ett leende som fastnat

en person som hojtar i en hälsning –  de följs åt

en person på motorcykel klädd i svart med svart hjälm och svart visir

hen med väskan över axeln går tillbaks

en större grupp som går väldigt långsamt i samma takt

ett rep fastsurrat mellan pålar

ett finger som höjs

en hand som sticks in i fickan

två händer som viftar i takt

svank och en knut på plastpåsen

ett steg i taget

torgets sluttande yta en uppmaning

händerna stöder korsryggen

framåt med kantiga steg

det som övervakningskamerorna inte noterar

se det som inte för väsen

det som tar plats

det som inte låter

det som aldrig möts

 

blinkande ljus uppe på taket

skräpet som lägger sig mellan kullerstenarna grupper

 

 

det som inte låter sig beskrivas,

what escapes description

skribenterna i linje, skriva 3 minuter ta 10 steg

 

20.18

riktningar

linjer

det som lämnas

repetitioner

det som hänger

det som backar

20.21

det som sätter sig

de som inte kan

jag som inte kan

skuggan som lägger sig vänsterom

det som passerar

hen som tittar

de som lutar sig mot fönsterblecket

20.24

ta fast mig

jooo

ölen tog slut på silverscenens trappa

fler skuggor

vänder mig

reflektionerna

stumpen av hela kroppen som reflekteras i silverscenens trappor

fragment

delar

snuttar

bitar

avrivningar

uppstötningar

avlämningar

spottloskor

alla ölburkarna får plats i påsen

värmen

måsarnas bus

lukten

20.28

oss

den bästa stunden

solen i örat

läpparna klibbar

fuktar dem

går 10 steg framåt

nu

20.32

återkommande

kommanden

pussikalja

kätshee

20.36

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

avståndet mellan oss

 

Pull of attractions 30min

11.30-12

 

kaksin nopeasti torilla halki

yksin takki auki, takin liepeet levähtävät auki askelten tahdissa

hitaammat askeleet punatakissa, katse jalkoihin,

tennareiden kumipohja on äänetön

naurahdus ja katse kännykkään

kännykän kaiutin päällä

ei ketään keskellä toria

kolmikko pieni ja iso ihminen

molemmilla päähine ja aurinkolasit vaikka on pilvistä

äänet päivästä päivään, varpuset joita en ole onnistunut näkemään ja liikennevalojen rytmittämä autoletka

päähineitä, ulkovaatteita

haalistuneita kenkiä

rollaattori ja sandaalit – ne lonksuvat

pyörätuoli ja huomaavainen työntäjä

jalankulkija joka ei ole menossa minnekään,  90 asteen käännös aikalailla keskellätoria, jatkaa kohti

kauppakeskusta, siellä tuttava tai puoliso, he jatkavat yhdessä

korkkarit

tennarit

jollat

saapikkaat

lokit jotenkin torin vakio, niiden tuleminen ja meneminen kiinnostaa

tällä hetkellä ei ainuttakaan mutta kohta ne sieltä tulee

rääkyy kalkattaa

lipuu torin yllä ja valitsee hyviä tarkkailu paikkoja

kättä ojentava veistos on ulosteen raidoittamalla

tori vilkkaan autotien ja kävelykadun välissä

tori kauppakeskusten välissä

 

kova tuulenpuuska istun kuitenkin tukevasti näyttämön rappusilla

iltaisin aivan eri tunnelma ja meininki

 

nyt arkipäivä ja lounasaika

vanhempia ja lapsia

otos väestöstä

pillimehuja

katuruoka autot ja perävaunut

muovipussi puristusotteessa

käsilaukku kämmenellä

paperinen ostoskassi

rattaiden rätinää kivetyksellä

hiussuortuvat korvan taakse, donitsi

bussin ovet avautuvat, se tyhjentyyy matkustajista ja jatkaa kohti Vaskiluotoa

pari autoa etenee nopeasti

kirkkaansininen vaatteessa

kirkkaan oranssi takissa

kestokassi jossa omena kuvio

reppu ohjaa painoa taaksepäin

ryhmä lukio- tai ammattikorkeakoulu ikäisiä

kirjoittaja nojaa oikeaa jalkaansa kaiteeseenjoka ympäröi istutettua lehmusta

kumartuu eteenpäin

kävelee takakenossa

istuu

istuutuu

 

Score: To Follow

21° C // 19:45

गुलाबीपंखुड़ियां

बासीफूल

नीलेप्लास्टिकाटुकड़ा

मसलीहुईपत्तियां

बिजलीकेतार

बादल, आसमान

नीलीरस्सी, लोहा

पत्थर, प्लास्टिबोतल

नएपौधे

समेटीहुईकुर्सियां

सीमेंट, एंटेना, कांचकेटुकड़े

 

Scanning  what escapes (resists description) //

21° C // 20:18

shadow in the grout

sound under the square

space of standing hook

in the ground

changing length of shadows

stopped time in the clock

patterns on each cobblestone

the number of seagulls

the number of seagulls flying silently

the waiting

the chewed gum

the stains

the heat in the back

the ending of the sunlit part of the square

broken glass

closing of shops

collecting of cans

why we are here

what makes us right

dust on the silver stage

beginning of shade

change in coolness

what is immediate

the conversation

the clouds

misalignment of reflections

the twisted mask bird’s eye view

view from below

what’s behind

the collection of cans

intentful walking

the voice on the other side of the phone

the bleached colours of the flags

change in the direction of cobblestones

the beginning of a song

the origin of a family

 

Score: Pulls of attraction

17° C // 11:15

connecting cables

shoots on a trunk

setting up a day

checking the supply of electricity

they come as secrets

the walking of a passerby

almost like guests

left behind

summer path

seizing, hushing, gushing, rushing

alive and well

devoted City bikers

cheap coins

chained up and down

piling up pink bicycle lock

lock bicycles

gendered models

parked when the electric connection

someone makes a photo of two bags

both handles of a bicycle

baby carrier

two bicycles

flowers at the wheel

bicycle flashes among cars

the wall is covered with writing

pedals chained to the rack, and pedals

pedal like clams

words on a page

little packets of lovers thieves blue enamel body

movement of the tongue

the light splashes from the wheels

the market is a movement of the tongue

petting a scar

meandering root

embroidery hoop

sensations of an image

pattern recognition

software of our brains

carcass

mind glomming into things

possibilities of material

words that don’t rhyme

the vibration of words continuous chains

stays cold under my skin