New York Public Library

Exhibition THR33 Faiths:

ancient and modern

illuminated texts form

Islamic, Jewish and Christian signs

calligraphic ornamented emblematic

gold leaf

natural pigments

common threads

horned Moses

no photos

use your eyes

use your mind

Broadway Through Times Square:

media blitz

heavy police presence

hawkers beggars and advertising

looking for your money

refuse the photo-op

no free ads in your album

externalised interior nature of corporate fantasy/mind

perfect image re-production

social sculpture for gains

profit and power and accumulation

moulding collective consciousness

Like flocks of sea birds

nesting in crevices

of neon cliffs

eating and excreting

money and goods

trading values and economies

beyond any reasonable limit

excess of production:

TOTAL

absorption into

dangerous material intelligence

virtual life suspends the natural law

at a price beyond conception

meanwhile...

a green Latin leprechaun

face freezing stiff on ice-wind-blast street corner

ill fitting garb and a dejected aura

high class shoppers spend plastic wads

homeless shadows mill and scour

Grand Central Zone:

women in furs

men in rags

horned traffic

walk/don't walk

ghosts apparitions shades souls

moving within

momentarily visible

stray flows

on singular missions

free radicals pick up

the small change

of an indifferent form of illusion

multiple dimensions shifting proximity

superimposed

between and within

choosing to see... or not

register... or not

acknowledge... or not