Here is a blank space soft and white like paper extended indefinitely. No fiber, just the color: spectator paper. Here has no line or other features to provide orientation. Here is only myself, my motion and what includes them.
When I close my eyes I see people wearing silver Mylar suits, helmets and masks floating and bouncing in zero gravity. Sometimes I think that here is a page from a notebook and that I am part of a story one of them has forgotten in a back pocket. I don't know why I think that.
Sometimes I try to occupy a single point so I can indicate another and call it there. I could then draw a line and another and another. But to do that, I would have to stop moving. I do not know how. Or maybe I do but cannot tell.
Other times I talk to myself so there is something to follow. The soft white blankness is full of strange electrical activity. The words I say are signals that I transmit through the soft antenna of my head into the thickness of the air. I watch the air slow then absorb them.
When I close my eyes I imagine this space interwoven with lattices comprised of tiny black nodes that chatter incessantly amongst themselves. The chatter is an electrical field that soon fills with a garden of geometries. When they come, I do not know if things are coming into being or falling away. Maybe they are the same and everywhere is a quiet catastrophe.
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I imagine this as what happens when the character in Exoskeleton leaves the room.
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Extremely interesting in its surreal strangeness that gets clipped together really well at its end
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thanks very much for the read, the lovely comment and the fave, susan. i like your work a lot, so it's always lovely when you say nice things about what i'm doing.