<span class="subtitle"> [title]</span><br /> <span class="texttitle"> Blink, smile<br /> </span> <span class="subtitle"> the persistence of vision </span> <span class="textfont"> [scene 1 fleeting]<br /> the eye retains the <span class="largermore">transient</span> image<br /> as exterior layers are stripped away<br /> the afterimage briefly endures </span> <span class="textfont"> [scene 2 frame]<br /> the <span class="enlarge opacityhalf">steel skeleton </span><br /> replicates the internal logic<br /> of the complete structure<br /> like an xray view burned on the exterior </span> <span class="textfont"> [scene 3 elevation]<br /> graphically envisioned as<br /> elements in a <span class="largermore opacityhalf"> schematic</span><br /> in a cutaway view, their internal workings<br /> have been stripped of mystery </span> <span class="textfont"> [scene 4 lucid]<br /> even a slight <br /> <span class="enlarge opacityhalf"> transparency</span><br /> would expose the complexity<br /> just below the surface<br /> </span> <span class="textfont"> [scene 5 intermingle]<br /> sometimes exterior and interior <br /> are<span class="largermore opacityhalf"> indistinguishable</span><br /> no shell and no core to separate </span> <span class="textfont"> [scene 6 dissect]<br /> public <span class="largermore opacityhalf"> dismemberment </span><br /> is cruel and relentless<br /> taking down and wiping out<br /> stripping the carcass piece by piece<br /> </span> <span class="textfont xlineht"> [scene 7 tangle]<br /> the exterior membrane peeled back,<br /> the <span class="largermore">tangle of supports</span><br /> casts shadow puppets on a nearby intact building, <br /> the silhouette of a comatose industrial monster </span> <span class="textfont"> [scene 8 expanse]<br /> if you love geometry<br /> this newly exposed field <br /> of <span class="enlarge xlineht"> repeating verticals</span><br /> is pure <span class="enlarge">poetry</span> </span> <span class="textfont"> [scene 9 coalesce]<br /> within the scaffolding of straight lines<br /> and at the core, is a tangle of steel<br /> it looks like a clot of <span class="enlarge">seaweed</span><br /> knotted and clumped like an Art Deco ornament </span> <span class="textfont"> [scene 10 lead]<br /> this demolition<span class="largermore"> wireframes</span> <br /> the delineated spaces between girders <br /> creating a line drawing lit up at night<br /> construction lights shining from within<br /> </span> <span class="textfont"> [scene 11 palpable]<br /> the image of what was there before reaches the retina <br /> and registers as the ghost of something vanished<br /> <span class="largerserif"> lingering in the air </span><br /> like a conversation that was never finished<br /> </span> <span class="textfont"> [scene 12 strip]<br /> in a monumental takedown<br /> skin <span class="enlarge2x">bared</span> to the bone<br /> </span> <span class="textfont"> [scene 13 severe]<br /> now austere, the anatomy of form<br /> has an<span class="largerserif opacityhalf"> intelligence</span><br /> and a morphology<br /> that it lacked as a banal developer’s building<br /> </span> <span class="textfont"> [scene 14 pause]<br /> it plays like a time-lapse photo<br /> details accumulating then dematerializing<br /> accretion, evanescence, reforming<br /> a new <span class="enlarge2x"> entity</span> before your eyes </span> <span class="textfont"> [scene 15 distort]<br /> a likeness of what was there before<br /> <span class="enlarge2x">persist</span><br /> projected on the rubble<br /> like a holy picture <span class="larger"> imprinted </span><br /> on a piece of buttered toast <br /> </span> <span class="textfont"> [scene 16 loop]<br /> memory is out of control <br /> the <span class="enlarge opacityhalf"> flow of images<br /> </span> unstoppable and uninvited<br /> an unending film playing at double speed<br /> </span> <span class="textfont"> [scene 17 mesh]<br /> <spa class="enlarge2x opacityhalf"> transfixed </span><br /> by lines and lines within lines<br /> lines crossing lines, vibrating<br /> in a ballet of regulated squares<br /> </span> <span class="textfont"> [scene 18 contain]<br /> <span class="medserif opacityhalf"> <br /> regulated, rhythmic</span><br /> container and modulator<br /> platonic ideal or prison bars </span> <span class="textfont"> [scene 19 shard]<br /> <span class="larger">clean geometry</span><br /> the neatness of the modelmaker’s art <br /> next to a tangle of cubist planes<br /> unresolved systems </span> <span class="textfont xlineht"> [scene 20 vibrate]<br /> this regular patterning is not neutral<br /> the ideology of order <br /> imposed on the former chaos of <br /> what happened to be there </span> <span class="textfont"> [scene 21 blaze]<br /> <span class="enlarge opacityhalf"> exceptions,</span><br /> the few remnants of old signage<br /> glow like an old cathode tube<br /> in a darkened room </span>