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Swan My Mother Said :: Hobo 23

Speculative Ontology

Category: Research

Written by hobo23@gmail.comOctober 15, 2012March 28, 2018

Swan ghost-traces on the lagoon.

Written by hobo23@gmail.comOctober 16, 2012March 28, 2018

Where I would be if I were a swan.

Written by hobo23@gmail.comNovember 3, 2012April 1, 2018

An algae I had not noticed before is growing in the swimming pond on an unusually warm day.

Written by hobo23@gmail.comFebruary 26, 2013March 28, 2018

The boathouse. As seen from the east side of the lagoon.

Written by hobo23@gmail.comMarch 4, 2013April 6, 2018

I am awating the delivery of more instant film. Meanwhile I used a medium-format film camera to take photographs of fowl poop in the park. I am told that goose poop and swan poop are indistinguishable other than under the eye of an expert.

Written by hobo23@gmail.comJune 11, 2013April 6, 2018

This morning, several blocks from Humboldt Park, I stumbled upon this totemic effigy erected to the swan in a front yard.

Written by hobo23@gmail.comOctober 6, 2013April 6, 2018

A plastic toy camera has been handy for conducting reconnaissance.

Written by hobo23@gmail.comAugust 3, 2015April 6, 2018

I’ve been using another tactic in my hunt this summer: Attaching an HD video camera to my dog Johnson and sending him beneath the surface of the lagoon to find evidence of the swan.

Written by hobo23@gmail.comJuly 23, 2016March 6, 2019

I have been hunting around the park using the PXL200 camera and a cassette of horses.

Written by hobo23@gmail.comJanuary 3, 2017March 4, 2019

Today Is My Fiftieth Birthday. I spent An Hour And A Half In The park This Morning Looking and Taking Photographs and Notes.

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