The Book of Fixed Stars. cryotype, 2019
2 channel infrared HD video on holographic plexiglass, color, sound

28:00 

Paul Soto, Los Angeles

Sgr A* ☳, 1898-2019
Inherited wood chair, fire, beeswax
34 x 19 x 27 inches 


time in a lanyard of skins
it was an orange day the stripes sliced in sky
a crescent sun with double eyes
The brain was thought only to be the origin of mucus, so it was reduced to liquid, 
removed with metal hooks, and discarded.*
the beginning of the end of the beginning and the end
like a lollipop should be licked
oracular, a whole to another possibility 
that might just be right here**
In the case of a black hole, the insight was that the informational content of all the objects that have fallen into the hole might be entirely contained in surface fluctuations of the event horizon.***
we met once the summer after not living there anymore
the book includes 2 views for each constellation
1 from below and 1 from above
when we met again the question of how to feng shui a memory palace
she didn't know if this was later heaven or early heaven
maybe there could be a middle
the glitch wound then to here
Shattering. It is what we do.****



 

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* Budge, Edward Wallis, 2010. The Mummy; a Handbook of Egyptian Funerary Archaeology

** Perta, Litia, what about “oracular”???, email, 9/4/19

*** https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Holographic_principle&oldid=907575005
**** Ahmed, Sara, feministkilljoys, Queer Fatalism,1/13/17. https://feministkilljoys.com/2017/01/13/queer-fatalism/
***** Feng Shui by Brooke Intrachat
****** Thanks to Brahmashakti Fudail, Yunuen Rhi and the 10,000 spirits