Nonsense Interference Patterns
Ted Hiebert
When looking for perspective -- of one sort or another -- in which way do you focus your gaze? How does the haze of possibility manifest -- in which way, in which direction, and with what selected attention? Or does the direction itself determine the way -- the way to go hide and go seek, or a stumble and fall into another next way of looking? Does the gaze idly wonder? Or does it instead wait for the wandering idols of already congealed meaning to tell it which way to go -- which way is the right way, the wrong way or the way just to play? Is looking not itself Icarian -- a fall from the sanctity of understanding into the cascade of perspectival variation: patterns coming and going, uncertainties and stories and possibilities and truths and falsities and manifestations both realized and denied? Interference... invisible perspectives, hidden perspectives, suddenly manifest despite their own impossibilities, and despite our disregard of their imaginary power.
The problem with hidden perspectives, of course, is that they are not apparent, subsumed by that which they pretend to represent, and representing nothing at all until such time as the interference becomes unbearable... patterned -- nonsensically patterned -- into manifest existence itself.
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