Paul Sharits (1943-1993)

progressively more
1 film's currents scratched into the emulsion--these section off
the wet illusion patterns in the film's emulsions
until the 6th permutation is all section, a
section of the wall (3:4 screen area) is defined by
projector light.

sitting each morning for an hour by the creek
gradually realized that just as a "wave" of water
retains its overall shape* is in constant wavering
changes ( it is interesting that this relatiave constancy (wave)
is a product of never-repeating (water) content) so in the
sound of a stream a fluid series of attention
lap dissolves: attention moves from one set of
a multitude of of constantly present sounds to another set, zooming
in on (?), zoomingn back to the total
"sound of a creek", to chords of this + that

a soundtrack:                    ---or---
word cluster 1                                 one wordwall laps into
(A-B-C)                                               another physically,
wc 2                                                + back again
(B-C-D)
wc 3                                                      1----A
(C-D-E)                                                          B
wc 4                                                              C-----2
(D-E-F)                                                 3------D
wc 5                                                               E-----4
(E-F-G)                                                  5------F
wc 6                                                                G-----6
(F-G-H)                                                            H