Unlikely 2.0


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Editors' Notes

Maria Damon and Michelle Greenblatt
Jim Leftwich and Michelle Greenblatt
Sheila E. Murphy and Michelle Greenblatt

A Visual Conversation on Michelle Greenblatt's ASHES AND SEEDS with Stephen Harrison, Monika Mori | MOO, Jonathan Penton and Michelle Greenblatt

Letters for Michelle: with work by Jukka-Pekka Kervinen, Jeffrey Side, Larry Goodell, mark hartenbach, Charles J. Butler, Alexandria Bryan and Brian Kovich

Visual Poetry by Reed Altemus
Poetry by Glen Armstrong
Poetry by Lana Bella
A Eulogic Poem by John M. Bennett
Elegic Poetry by John M. Bennett
Poetry by Wendy Taylor Carlisle
A Eulogy by Vincent A. Cellucci
Poetry by Vincent A. Cellucci
Poetry by Joel Chace
A Spoken Word Poem and Visual Art by K.R. Copeland
A Eulogy by Alan Fyfe
Poetry by Win Harms
Poetry by Carolyn Hembree
Poetry by Cindy Hochman
A Eulogy by Steffen Horstmann
A Eulogic Poem by Dylan Krieger
An Elegic Poem by Dylan Krieger
Visual Art by Donna Kuhn
Poetry by Louise Landes Levi
Poetry by Jim Lineberger
Poetry by Dennis Mahagin
Poetry by Peter Marra
A Eulogy by Frankie Metro
A Song by Alexis Moon and Jonathan Penton
Poetry by Jay Passer
A Eulogy by Jonathan Penton
Visual Poetry by Anne Elezabeth Pluto and Bryson Dean-Gauthier
Visual Art by Marthe Reed
A Eulogy by Gabriel Ricard
Poetry by Alison Ross
A Short Movie by Bernd Sauermann
Poetry by Christopher Shipman
A Spoken Word Poem by Larissa Shmailo
A Eulogic Poem by Jay Sizemore
Elegic Poetry by Jay Sizemore
Poetry by Felino A. Soriano
Visual Art by Jamie Stoneman
Poetry by Ray Succre
Poetry by Yuriy Tarnawsky
A Song by Marc Vincenz


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Thought Sparks
by Jeff Crouch

To say "just a moment, please" is to ask for time.

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But whose time? The time for a thought to pass. Synapse, synapse.

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Zeno of Elea, famous for his paradoxes, assumed that at any instant, an instant being of zero duration, all motion stopped. Hence, Zeno showed the fast cannot overtake the slow, and yet the fast overtake the slow.

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Is there any time at all with all motion stopped? Thought sparks.

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But the commotion has not stopped, and Rene Magritte tells us as much: "Ceci n'est pas une pipe!"

We are all headed to McDonalds on multiple planes of existence.

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Zeno of Elea confused the world with his picture, which had stopped all time and remained there, the diagram of an instant.

But if the speed of light is constant in a given medium, unless we re-consider ether, race our mediums, … we have the problem of speed limit. Doppler effect. The fast does not overtake the slow.

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Piece these instances together, and there's narrative albeit narrative of the robotic sort.

The arrow never reaches its target—the film has too few frames, but in a frame, all frames become layers.

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No need for the film to progress—a single frame with depth?

Here, layer encapsulates narrative, and dimension dups time.
Layers upon layers.

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Auguste Rodin traps the motion. Umberto Boccioni too.

Stopped time is eternity. Vast, Burkean. (Not pictured here. See Caspar David Fredrich.)

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What happens though when time stops and the motion keeps going? Time symbolized by depth and other devices?

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Have we made a monument of time with these odd blurs, these streaks of light? Sculpted the "in more than one place at once"?

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Statistics of Feynman. The Heisenbergian freeze frame is already melting.

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In 2001, the monolith. We have abjured the monolith? We conclude with a vegetable planet, a cheesy bit of wit. Understand the thought as time.

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"Ogres are like onions." Does it mean onions and ogres both have layers? Or, do onions have layers, and ogres have lairs? Or or both? Geometry of mind.


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When asked for a bio, Jeff Crouch said:
"In the Dallas-Forth Worth metroplex of Texas.
Culture as history, politics, and art, the conjunction thereof.
Time as Moebius strip.
Splicing poetry into it."