Wednesday, January 2, 2008

Cicerone's Journeys: Three

Cicerone's journeys are constructs, relationally aestheticised assemblages of association, steeped in a history of artful manipulation. Every picture tells a story, then another one, then another one. Every picture is a liar. Every picture is the truth, literally, transliterally, an alliterated accumulation of inferred narratives. Cicerone is the guide aboard a tour bus, driving in circles and spirals on a road to nowhere, somewhere on or off a map that is drawn and redrawn in memory and song. Lines of song, lines of text, white lines that mark the road, red lines that are borders, thin lines that are easily crossed or erased, invisible lines that link events across unlikely distances.

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