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The oldest light we can observe, the cosmic microwave background radiation, is nearly 14 billion years old. One of the defining traits of light is that it cannot truly be owned, at least not yet. In a sense, trees can archive light temporarily through photosynthesis and transform it into chemical energy. A line can be… Continue reading Degas’ Obsession / The Artificiality of Art

In 2011 I wrote a system poem. In 2024 I inscribed it into the Bitcoin blockchain. In 2025 I finished a photographic work, ICE | July | 1982, built around William Gibson’s concept of Black ICE: the cryptographic membrane that, in the novel, wraps data against intrusion. This page is an attempt to pull those… Continue reading Blockchain Poetry: Gibson, Wordsworth, Shakespeare (all Williams)

Flax, if it had a voice, would be screaming while processed. It’s grabbed by the head and pulled out of the ground. Roots and all. It’s sown thickly for self-suppression, so that it grows stunted and does not branch out. Flax needs oppression. It’s pulled around. It’s spread-eagled on the fields, and elsewhere soaked in… Continue reading Viktor Shklovsky: On Flax from ‘On Freedom of Art’, The Third Factory, 1926