115 photographs taken from my collection of 20th century vernacular photography are paired with accompanying texts reflecting on the fragments of Heraclitus. The project uses the lingua franca of e-commerce to host concerns of memory, time, relation, value and canon-making. The ambiguity of the surviving fragments from Heraclitus’ sole lost work On Nature, are echoed in the enigmatic images collected during travels.
The Prologue:
They find themselves downstream from Heraclitus, believing Jalal Toufic that every name in history is I, and with whispered hands arrange fragments into gifts of constellation.
Notes on viewing:
The work is best experienced on a desktop monitor, read sequentially, and scored by the Mande Variations by Toumani Diabaté.
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Messages will be replied to by an AI programmed with Heraclitus, Jalal Toufic, Anne Carson, Chris Marker, Édouard Glissant and Wikipedia.
Update: Monday June 5th, 2023
This may have been composed to listen with the sky is the same colour everywhere by Toumani Diabaté and Kayhan Kalhor, not yet made but ready now