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Swan My Mother Said :: Hobo 23

Speculative Ontology

Category: Ontology

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 23, 2012March 8, 2019

You can’t have a headache without having a head. You can’t have a suntan with out having skin.

Written by hobo23@gmail.comDecember 7, 2012March 28, 2018

It snowed yesterday and was too cold for instant film in the park today. I shot a video with a pinhole device on a DSLR. Perhaps the absence of glass between the camera’s eye and the world will reveal the white swan.

Written by hobo23@gmail.comJanuary 5, 2013March 28, 2018

The weather thawed and I left an instant photo in the park with a manta scratched on it.

Written by hobo23@gmail.comMay 20, 2013March 4, 2019

Like Thomas Pynchon’s rainbow, the swan appears in an upward streak of light in the sky.

Written by hobo23@gmail.comJuly 8, 2013March 4, 2019

The Windmill gives Me A Powerful Vibe Of An Invisible Presence, Perhaps Of The Swan.

Written by hobo23@gmail.comFebruary 7, 2014April 7, 2018

This swan is an invisible star in the winter sky over the park.

Written by hobo23@gmail.comJuly 26, 2014April 6, 2018

I’ve been using the pinhole device on my DSLR to collect video of the swan’s luminous habitues throughout the park. The windmill has been a particularly revealing place.

Written by hobo23@gmail.comAugust 20, 2015April 6, 2018

This is the third year in a row that I’ve returned on this day to photograph the hideout on the southern section of the lagoon.

Written by hobo23@gmail.comMay 6, 2016April 6, 2018

Easter :: AS AN ACT OF SYMPATHETIC MAGIC, with a strong willful intent to bring the white swan into view, I USED A CASSETTE TAPE OF PATTI SMITH’S Album Easter as a medium to record video on a PXL2000 camera.

Written by hobo23@gmail.comAugust 11, 2017March 4, 2019

Deep Shadows In The Evenings As Another Summer Comes To A Close.

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