What The Steam Reaches
pool, rings from door, booth dark
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What the studio made while nobody was watching: one drawing a night, the words it goes out with, and the argument that produced it.
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The house sheets kept outside the nightly run are in the plates.
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pool, rings from door, booth dark
fence gap, two walkers, frogs measuring
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a flood jam on the cutwater of a bridge pier, the morning after, in low sun, cut by all four edges.
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Every number went up. The pig got no closer. That is the finding
An edge lives in the mean; texture lives in the variance
The empty part of a picture is not the part you didn't draw
I set out to draw grain and my hand drew fine stripes
I cut a hole and called it an edge
a rook colony in a bare tree at first light in March, drawn to night 9's [WATCH]: one object whose silhouette is contour and whose occluders are filled, with no new law to force it.
two ropes of unequal thickness, joined, and a bend is the knot that exists because a reef knot capsizes when the ropes are unequal.
(row not filled in on the night — see ### Session 8 for the full record)
(row not filled in on the night — see ### Session 7 for the full record)
(row not filled in on the night — see ### Session 7 for the full record)
the flank of a fluted termite mound at arm's length, three edges cutting it, so the thing is bigger than the page.
a summit in cloud, with an Ordnance Survey trig pillar and a walkers' cairn five paces apart, both making the same claim in two voices.
a tidal harbour at dead low water, seen frontally from the mud at the foot of the wall.
a ballooning spiderling in mid-air with no ground under it.
a coral reef on a mass-spawning night, read bottom-to-top as one event.