{"id":1278,"date":"2014-10-01T05:46:51","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T05:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/godshampoo.com\/?p=1278"},"modified":"2014-10-01T14:59:05","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T14:59:05","slug":"i-just-might-be-in-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godshampoo.com\/?p=1278","title":{"rendered":"I just might be in there"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>October pressed against this late September day, the work is shifting from its last interation, beholden though I am to it&#8230; here\u2019s Dick, with \u201cinteration,\u201d pointing out that, interred, brought to ground, caught as one thing and not another, as a form, the work loses its most spectacular quality, possibility. \u00a0But not so <em>these<\/em> optics, I say, leaning back in my chair, crossing my feet on the table like I in<i>vent<\/i>ed light going through glass. These optics are Sirens in a box, and now that I\u2019ve broken the seal I hear their whirling &#8211; what is the word for the kind of sound they make? \u00a0The whining angel hum of a <a title=\"musical saw\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hS6pQ8vbXLY\" target=\"_blank\">bowed saw<\/a>, or a\u00a0<a title=\"Jimmy Page plays the theremin\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kujH0ScAi0\" target=\"_blank\">theremin<\/a>? The voice of\u00a0<a title=\"clare torry\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?client=safari&amp;rls=en&amp;q=clare+torry&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8\" target=\"_blank\">Clare Torry<\/a>? What\u2019s the word for that? \u00a0what will they do with light.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChatoyancy?\u201d\u00a0 Spectrology?\u00a0 Eh?\u00a0 Photonics?<\/p>\n<p>The dispersion of light.\u00a0 Now that\u2019s problematic because dispersion may be related to quantity, and talk about one foot on the dock and one on the boat, we are talking about the very nature of light. So far I think I\u2019m in a better position for my luck and intuition, with strict adherence to the unproven, to the creative, to the Cloud of I Just Might Be In There.<\/p>\n<p>I can\u2019t tell anything about it until I&#8217;m in the middle of whatever i implied myself to, in the remoter regions of the making mind, in its sleep, where ideas do the least harm to the unfurling.<\/p>\n<p>I have 7 in-progress works.\u00a0 Already hanging, with the wiring system in place.\u00a0\u00a0I can rig up a few optics in wire, which isn\u2019t nothing to think about, how to hold a slippery, fragile object with as little wire as possible.\u00a0 I have a new respect for fisherman\u2019s net with glass orb floaters woven\u00a0<strong>in<\/strong>. \u00a0Life takes skill. \u00a0It takes thinking, and these glass optics are finicky, they weigh a lot on one side, or in one direction, and not so much on the other. and I\u2019m a barefoot worker in a cement studio.<\/p>\n<p>that moment of a priori knowledge, and even unnoticed versions of revelation\u00a0like speculation, guessing, just going about one\u2019s own business, the choice, the selection, the moment of determination, seeded by desire alone, and forming, making the habit, fortune telling and action, sister wondered whether to go to a life coach or a fortune teller, there\u2019s no difference, I told her.\u00a0 It\u2019s all <em>your<\/em> mind making <em>your <\/em>life.\u00a0 Using desire and our best monkey-talent, learning. I think of time lapse photos of growth and change, mosses and molds growing jittery against the camera\u2019s speedy, bent time, or roiling intergalactic gasses rendered in vast passages of <a title=\"silver lining\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=owTmdfiTjIM%20\" target=\"_blank\">change<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October pressed against this late September day, the work is shifting from its last interation, beholden though I am to it&#8230; here\u2019s Dick, with \u201cinteration,\u201d pointing out that, interred, brought to ground, caught as one thing and not another, as a form, the work loses its most spectacular quality, possibility. \u00a0But not so these optics, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/godshampoo.com\/?p=1278\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I just might be in there<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1296,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godshampoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/godshampoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/godshampoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godshampoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godshampoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1278"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/godshampoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1302,"href":"https:\/\/godshampoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278\/revisions\/1302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godshampoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godshampoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godshampoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godshampoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}