Vispo: Descent

RTomens, 2021

After the carbon marks, the red cross line descending, then the text, chosen by randomly opening Samuel Beckett's complete plays book and selecting lines that leapt out as...applicable? Appropriate? but appropriate to what? The thing had not been made yet, or even half-formed as an idea...so I improvise, this time almost in an...expressionistic manner, if such a thing is possible using the regimentation of a mechanical device - no brush strokes possible! But still, is the whiff of the human hand still visible? Always, even in typing, especially compared to text from a computer keyboard, of course - the 'mistakes', gaps in words where there should be none and of course the blobby ink-clogged lower case slugs. and occasional strike of a key which should have been set in either upper or lower case but was not. A speedy production but nevertheless one I felt pleased with afterwards, sitting back in the chair, scanning it all, pulling the sheet from The Beast, scanning and releasing it into the virtual world...