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RUMINATING ON SENSATE MEMORY ON THE WAY IT BUILDS IN SLOW ACCRETIONS MAPPING A MINUTELY SHIFTING LANDSCAPE

“It is like this: a slow and Sisyphean project, a slow changing of the landscape. You plant natives and a politician rips them out; you negotiate with the council to develop infrastructure in a part of San Bernardo and a developer razes the land at the top of the canyon; you clear tons and tons and tons of trash at the mouth of the estuary and Homeland Security rearranges the valley.”

Lesley Stern. “A Garden or a Grave? The Canyonic Landscape of the Tijuana-San Diego Region.” Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene, ed. by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Nils Bubandt, Elaine Gan, and Heather Anne Swanson. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017. p.28.

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IT IS LIKE THIS A SLOW AND SISYPHEAN PROJECT A SLOW CHANGING OF THE LANDSCAPE YOU PLANT NATIVES

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UNCHANGED UNTIL THE END OF THE POEM SIGNALED BY A SLOW DRAWING TOGETHER OF HER HANDS IN A FINAL CLASP

“Her face remains unchanged until the end of the poem, signaled by a slow drawing together of her hands in a final clasp of fealty to her beloved.”

Padden, Carol, and Tom Humphries. Inside Deaf Culture. Cambridge, Massachusetts; London, England: Harvar

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TO GIVE BACK TO YOU SACRED IS THE HA MY NYAPUME KWI I SING TO THE LAND AS SHE RESTORES MY WEARY MAAT

- Line 29, Yeechesh Cha’alk, Alex Hunter and Eva Trujillo.

CHANCE EVER LOOKED THROUGH A MICROSCOPE AT THE SLOW COME-AND-GO OF PROTOPLASM IN THE CELL MEMBRANE

“Or if Nietzsche by chance ever looked through a microscope at the slow come-and-go of protoplasm confined within the cell membrane in a hair of a spider-lily, what a convincing proof of ‘will to power’ and ‘desire for mastery’ he had before him!”

Ritter, William Emerson. The Higher Usefulness of Science, and Other Essays. Boston, MA: Gorham Press, 1918. p. 133.

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AND IRON SULFIDE REMAINS IN THE MANTLE AND ITS SLOW MOVEMENT TO THE CORE IS A SOURCE OF ENERGY

“If the chemical composition is the same throughout the mantle, then convection should be possible throughout the mantle in spite of phase changes, provided that these changes occur rapidly as compared to the rate of convection, and the convection might well occur in either layer separately.”

Urey, Harold C. "On the Origin of Continents and Mountains." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 39, no. 9 (1953): 935.

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WEB OF CLAN AND KIN BY BLEATS AND SMELLS TO THE SLOW ROTATION OF THEIR ORDER LIVING HALF IN SKY DAMP

“…on sedate wild sheep grazing
tundra greens, held in the web of clan
and kin by bleats and smells to the slow
rotation of their Order living
half in the sky—damp wind up from the
whole North Slope and a taste of the icepack,
the primus roaring now,
here, have some tea.”

Snyder, Gary. The Practice of the Wild. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1990. p. 108. Dogen. Moon in a Dewdrop: Writings of Zen Master Dogen. Tanahashi, Kazuaki (trans.). San Francisco: North Point, 1985.

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OLD OLD HABITAT OF HUMANS FALLS BEFORE THE SLOW MOTION EXPLOSION OF EXPANDING WORLD ECONOMIES

“Creatures who have traveled with us through the ages are now apparently doomed, as their habitat—and the old, old habitat of humans—falls before the slow-motion explosion of expanding world economies.”

Snyder, Gary. The Practice of the Wild. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1990. p. 5.

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THEY BLOOM IN EARLY SPRING WHEN IT RAINS THE SLOW COLLAPSE OF PAPER MEN INTO DRIPPING SOGGINESS

“Paper men made in
a bare orchard:

Construction or papier-mâché images
should be made in the bare branches
just before they bloom in early spring.
When it next rains, the slow collapse of
these paper men into dripping sogginess
may be watched by the builders.

Kaprow, Allan. “Notes to RAINING.” Some Recent Happenings. New York, NY: Great Bear Pamphlets, 1966. p. 15.

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THOUGH WE ARE AWARE THAT ALTHOUGH WE CAN SLOW TIME DOWN IT IS ALWAYS MOVING FORWARD IN FACT

"In such actions one’s life becomes identified with time beyond
all illusion and, surprisingly, internal stillness can result, even though we are painfully aware that, although we can slow time down, it is always moving forward. In fact, we are time. It exists in and around us and is manifested in our final dissolution."

Becker, Carol. “Afterthoughts: Stilling the World.” In Out of Now: The Lifeworks of Tehching Hsieh, by Adrian Heathfield and Tehching Hsieh. London: MIT Press and Live Art Development, 2009. p. 3.

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