#world memory

"I seem to see him, alone in the void, as he travels through the expanse of light-years, but still quarreling with his wife. That ‘I told you so’ and ‘brilliant discovery’ that accompanied the birth of stars, the movement of galaxies, the cooling of planets, that ‘you’ll be happy now’ and ‘that’s all you ever say’ that marked every episode and phase and explosion of their quarrels and of heavenly cataclysms, that ‘you always think you’re right’ and ‘it’s because you never listen to me’ without which the history of the universe would not have for him any name or memory or flavour, that eternal conjugal bickering: if ever it should one day come to an end, what a feeling of desolation, what emptiness! ”

WORLD MEMORY AND OTHER COSMICOMIC STORIES: As Long as the Sun Lasts

11 x 15 inches ink and marker on watercolor paper July 12, 2016

artist: Matt Kish

“I was by then plunging down into my darkness, and the internal skies were closing over me one by one: flint vaults, aluminum roofs, atmospheres of sticky sulphur; and the variegated subterranean silence echoed around me with its muffled rumbles, and its sotto-voce thunder. . . To free Rdix became my sole thought: to force the doors of the outside, invade the external with the internal, reconnect Rdix to terrestrial matter, build over her a new vault, a new mineral sky, save her from the hell of that vibrating air, that sound, that song.”