Annotations are occurrences, thin registers of the textual and the live. This work-in-progress is a question of time and assembly – attempting, essaying, waiting, asiding, restaging – and of language as a place of struggle. I file an observation until its context is lost, then treat it as a found object.
To focus the eye piece I first unfocus the view.
Creative within the limits of material, I accompany myself on a series of openings and crossings. Walking backwards through time, I fell. I followed. This film is a book.
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