WARRING MOIRÉS

75K, 704 x 480. 1988. Digital picture-poem-rant-thing by Chris Wayan


I hate your isms. ALL of them. I'm an equal-opportunity hater. Theories are just guns, and I feel like a shell-shocked bird on a battlefield. I'm not being negative--I do like something. I trust direct experience. But beyond that, I get wary.

Hence this self-portrait of me as a bird made of Moiré (interference) patterns on a battlefield of clashing moirés, drawn in the Computer Neolithic with sixteen colors and a mouse (no pen, no scanner, they didn't exist) so don't laugh, it was like drawing with a stick on a rock only you had no stick and the rock kept running off. Consider it avant-garde retro.

Interference patterns shaped like a bird flying through explosions, with these words: 
Commuting through this IDEAL era feels like I'm a bird dodging between WARRING MOIRES. 
Showers of gold and strontium. Moiré eels! Creepy crystalline interference patterns of  these big sharp new ideologically correct ISMs. Faith? Teeth! Abstract, computer-crisp. 
Oh, the horror! 
And then I notice... I'm one too. 
Moi.
O what a tangled web we weave, when we first practice to beLIEve.'
Dedications:

To poet KENNETH PATCHEN, whose rough, passionate precomputer picture-poems showed me to say what I need to--not the "agreed-upon" important issues. Who agreed?

And to my late godmother JOAN-LEE WOEHLER, who traced the Sir Walter Scott quote about the web (he wrote "deceive" not "believe" of course, but we moderns generously manage to snare ourselves, too, in our ideological snares.).

the word FAITH written in gold, morphing in a few easy step into the white, sharp word TEETH


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