topology

sketch ::: 1706410516573

mctavish

entanglement

start again empty chalkboard
wound tape deck of cards
blank recording unpressed vinyl unengraved metal open cave
an equation computation restoration symphony
incantation animation last stop grassland texaco station
origin of species perfect ratio entanglement bank fragile web steady state
forever abundant resplendent frictionless eternal energy oxygen machine

repairman rider passenger hero (ze)ro lone bird
the blade the dyke the bird (our hero zero rider ze)
arrived on platform wasteland meadow track
worn suitcase sandwich coffee thermos
tepid brown liquid greasy paper
creased map
compass light
lucky strike

2

layers of heaven
cardinalities
threshold probabilities
levels of possible quantum
paths
knots
countable

a lattice lash tied taut

between zero & one
infinity
countable rational salt & pepper mesh
or an uncountable irrational sea
unbroken surface
lifetime & extinction

angels birds grassland constellation

seemingly infinite => countable
2 (not many)
1 (one => zero)
abstraction reduction
trace contour
subtraction
collapse
absence
zero
ghosts

dusty

late summer day dusty strands of light
taut against the very ether of air & day
particles stretched into waves cast from far away
circle orb fire dusty filaments tied against
strong limbs drawn nets from sky they pulled
muscled down & in these nets these baskets they
(the wiry reaching stalks) gathered invisible dinosaurs
their bones now atmospheric ghosts
of all released dead matter sources of their gathering
a hallelujah of photosynthetic abandon
a transference a miracle accumulation a sink a
grabbing & bending & forcing deep underground
a conversion a reclamation a redemption
a deep cellar window of light

sound

a hare moves
half the distance
repeat repeat loop
never stop never loss never last measure last chance
last breath last half last step
density tonal lattice
2d telegraph
duration plot staccato rhythm pattern
stochastic cyclone cluster noise chance score
sonic braille morse code stream sound
alphabet word phrase sentence time paper scroll
lattice graph network web tree
link join conjunction semicolon latch hinge
doorway portal pivot junction
conjoin jump
place or point of union
two or more railway lines
junction meet or cross

this

downward glance creased map marked path
radio research building institute
factory platform station
slant rusty hinge door sunlight
spider housings metal glint antenna
vines static deep dark corner silence
vinyl recordings specimen drawers
faded paper census sketchpad marks
lost language fallen angels
frozen role enactments
jukebox score
piano rolls
silent tattered scripts

stored inside this moss bound station
critical to the mission
notes numbers data
handbook manual translation codes
recorded ghost grass chorus
dried pressed limbs reed blade stem seed
circuit diagram equations

ink

watches for sale
circus hawker
projected image alley
film alley lamp
shadow night ink
pool found object
theater company sound
foundry sound factory
new polyphony alienation
intersections junctions
friction resolution
chords ropes sails

layers maps transects
routes destinations
vectors fields pixel web join caught number cells facts
dense matrix
sparse sky

repair

the repairman rider passenger lone bird

grass blade dyke (our hero zero rider ze)

left the throng of city depot
arrived alone worn suitcase sandwich lukewarm coffee thermos
tepid brown liquid greasy paper
rusted texaco station folded map
urgent mission
fix the system
repair reclaim rebuild reweave restore
this prairie meadow sequestration

(re)do

receiver net web electron field short wave thatch
wireless signal code
number station urgent message
change of course
turn back the clock (re)do (red)o stop the gears
throw the switch
turn the helm the wheel the tide the orbit
mend restart retrain reboard rewire
electrify set in motion
animate & breathe

once again repeat again retie retry reweave again
a name uttered speak again
reclaim restore correct

teeming

skull telescope
recorded playback frame
incomplete phonetics
extinct past taxon gap
cipher thrivance teeming whole
an awkward re assemblance
blank missing vertex node
absent click track metrics scale & score

archive junk drawer weather babel chaos din
vinyl recordings musical notations
frequencies harmonics rhythm velocities
charges changes coupled difference equations
probabilistic time series snapshots samples pressings indices
the symbols were known but the phonetics were lost
the clocks were out of phase
pulse & counting skew

creased

downward glance creased map old building vacant transmission
radio station cement wire wood vinyl recordings
grass forgotten language roles enactment script score reading glass
stone paper vinyl microfiche transmission reception receiver sensitive
convergent frequencies overlayment sine wave addition sums sound score recording
many languages multiple dimensions C N P frequencies
some below the threshold of hearing
others short fast high all at once
different scales different velocities different currencies materials markets of exchange
it would be hard to put this back together information lost sent number station
codes plurality of transmissions ghost radio
put the sound back put back transects seasonal constellations geometries probabilities
catalysts circulations taut dependencies resilience arithmetics liminal clocks
the eco-polyphonics of all living systems

electric

handbook of codes (1938 ::: 4th edition)
corner ledger entry
creased marked stained
unsteady hand page 48
pointer to drawer 89
swiftly culled collection
quickly scrawled notation
hike knapsack specimen
slender tender
sun salutation
pale & rising leaves
slow tango
archer & the doe
deftly spun golden silk
ecstatic synthesis
snapshot
drawing sky to soil
a rhizomatic broadcast
joyful ode electric pulse

that day the hiker struck & gathered
stamped & scrawled
a description the day

flash drive
cellular recollection
slowly fading
casting of a day
plant companion
pulsing network
etched on vinyl
voice wind chorus meadow chord
a sound restated now
perhaps could permeate the ether

shape

data modeling ecosystem transcription
contour core motion
stripped down
essential form
arc distilled
abstraction
line drawn
color form shape
context seed dynamics
phase plane essence
naked mirror silhouette
skeletal moving gears

translation filter
transformation
map bait lure tackle
spinning wheel
rapunzel wizard magic fish
chutes & ladders
connection conjunction sentence
necklace
purl one
knit one
knot one
sticky spider silk
relations table entry
time stamp seal or wax

transact system
query language
row by row relation
containment category rope bind
join

mesh

layers of heaven
cardinalities
threshold probabilities
levels of possible quantum
paths
knots
countable

a lattice lash tied taut

between zero & one
infinity
countable rational salt & pepper mesh
or an uncountable irrational sea
unbroken surface
lifetime & extinction

angels birds grassland constellation

seemingly infinite => countable
2 (not many)
1 (one => zero)
abstraction reduction
trace contour
subtraction
collapse
absence
zero
ghosts

0

trace erosion fragment shadow window time
season shifted local sundial noon-line fragment
blueprint blue light paper pressing
chronometer opacity odometer silent breath grass blade whisper
vapor ghost carbon cycle chlorophyll bone detrital join uptake
weight rhizome tent matrix building frame

dyke blade flame night graffiti gesture neon brandish flight
for each map filter fold list railway table
(off || on 0 || 1)
repairman rider passenger lone bird
grass blade dyke (our hero zero rider ze)
thatch radio signal static dial clock pulse receiver

transfer

volcanic eruptions colossal explosive summer of night
cloud of ash eternal winter sky
sublime vastness
clap of thunder
dark sky & rim of light

die cast astronomies astrologers oracles neural net forecast
summary synthesis archive copy
deductions cloudy inference pale sky dusty glass
cloud forest mist

chlorophyll inception resinous extension
oxygen production carbon-bound reduction
transfer bury sequestrate
atmospheric storage
soil archive biomass
sky writes to earth
clouds turn to grass
glass leaf snail fish
bone & soil & log

linear regression
inversion inflection
rollercoaster shift
velocity force change
approach zero
axis of gone the axe

dust bowl prairie loss

silver

industry(!)

stop gear
backspace

particle wave oscilloscope
rhythm beats tonal frame measure arc

sanctify
dance score action plan
syntax grammar punctuate
formula method outline theorem proof
silver set of slides
count map pulse
particles of speech
observe measure metric record journal data log
structure filter draw blueprint box
cell lattice web net moth flame
formula physics flow heat
electric gear locomotion transformation
fold reduce fix mend undo redo sew sow
archive find search echo
resonate release

day

why is this day unlike any other day?
this moment this view this inflection bending curve like no other
or why is this day like an other once upon a time dinosaur last-day meteorite explosion
dusty smoke-filled orange sky

a

why is this day unlike any other day?
this moment this view this inflection bending curve like no other
or why is this day like an other once upon a time dinosaur last-day meteorite explosion
dusty smoke-filled orange sky

syntax

goal ::: a net for capture seismograph of wind knowledge graphs monads
cybernetics books boat numerical recipes algorithms formulas dictionaries
structures grammar syntax dynamics choreographies
configurations changes chord progressions
harmonic sets heterotrophs producers fungal nutrient pools
weather self-organizing clockworks
a computing machine gears the mail a cloth
checkerboard abacus a network of relations
attracting orbit counting mapping computing
navigation a compass the ocean
a sailor ropes & tackle wind & helm

chaos

microscope observatory tiny vial
tiny xylophone tiny ribcage

tube => transistor cathode ray tube
raster digital pixel knowing
language drawing vector contour lost

cloud of pixels probabilities clump densities likelihood noise
boltzmann entropy analogue encoded signal computation
digit swarm translation

literature science novel science poetry science
narrative past text pollination
picture science syntax metaphor diagram
divine static steady state
mythic science
evolving ever changeful circle science
taut self-organizing orbit science
geometric atmospheric light nitrogen
nutrient profile adaptation
mineral light weather water
vial drop science
torn curtain broken window chaos science

contour

transformation
noise

voices tubes
moths jar
feedback electrical line static
harmonic ghosts
resonating strings
sympathetic rooms
wood wire reed sky

composer ink transmission
naked contour
wood pitch reed membrane breath line
invisible waves harmonic ladder
wire resonance strings chamber
hidden fabric
bagpipe
meadow score

plural

us / them / ze / I
the body plural the collection the ecology of I
constellation tonal set
commutative diagram
vector pillars basis set
fire bison
microfiche
memex landscape archive

moth flame fuel
what angel whose wings which bird
tightrope perilous torch gas flight
filament neon halogen light
solar spectra halo
semisynthetic polychromatic light
harvest net gap spark
every angel every bird every fire
every light

scrawled

dusty
dry
road
repairman rider passenger lone bird
grass blade dyke (our hero zero rider ze)
parched
to deep well
poured
vessel
curved heaven
layers walked
blocks & blocks miles & miles
grid traversals railroad shortcuts faster more
pause nap fuel sandwich coffee shelter onward
restless random walk

repairman rider passenger lone bird
grass blade dyke (our hero zero rider ze)
arrived on platform wasteland meadow track
suitcase sandwich coffee thermos
tepid brown liquid greasy paper
folded map
worn matchbook
lucky strike

illumination recitation number sequence radio station
urgent message scrawled location

this was the day the time the place
last chance prairie recitation reclamation
stop the gears bend the tide
stitch mend reweave restore rewind

transmission

repairman rider passenger lone bird
grass blade dyke (our hero zero rider ze)
reviewed the course the notes the goal
clock cycle nutrient cycling handbook codes
algorithms generative recipes diagrams flow probabilities coupled difference equations score
recorder of all things pigeon stone database journal records catalogue
ordered voices trophic chain biome web ::: a cycle
the goal to roll back first conditions
frames loom gears tangled strands
particles iron flint filing receivers long echo curvatures orbits
compass paths elliptical earth lines sky threads hertzian waves
maxwell electromagnetic radiation spark gap transmission signal smoke
moth-wing chaos cyclone silence thermal currents prairie noise
stochastic resilience robust fractionated adaptable evolving noise
particles beats rhythms frequencies dissonant resplendent symphony
verdant song radar language rubbed wings
quickening pulse through stalk & reed

staccato

a hare moves
half the distance
repeat repeat loop
never stop never loss never last measure last chance
last breath last half last step
density tonal lattice
2d telegraph
duration plot staccato rhythm pattern
stochastic cyclone cluster noise chance score
sonic braille morse code stream sound
alphabet word phrase sentence time paper scroll
lattice graph network web tree
link join conjunction semicolon latch hinge
doorway portal pivot junction
conjoin jump
place or point of union
two or more railway lines
junction meet or cross

diagrams

field notes double reed hollow log
breaking hard ground
thatch root millennia ruptured disrupted
buffalo fire & the fire tenders
lace boots & => functions of lists reduce / fold filter map
irretrievable calculation distillation contours
physics of oars physics of rope & gears
physics of taut independence bound inter dependence
cycling time flow graph calculus of change & motion
tangents & intersections flux weather elements wind
there exists an x a y a maybe just nothing
suppose this
not silence exactly

particles of speech particles of sound particles of exchange
molecular transfer diagrams schema ontologies syntax relations
punctuations blank space lines unfolding hollow tunnel echo static dial
encode translate transform (re)cover uncover reverse
verb => noun => past tense
neural net language drip radio wave resilience
co2 => biomass => soil
the deep & tangled dark sea horizon wind sail blades of grass
sky to earth to text texture textile

titration

electric magnet migrate translate
hero zero suitcase clock map train nomad
boat bird data airbase data cube data curved space
prism lattice fabric timestamp schema graph
reify untie unfold unroll
electric orbit ghost force ether spark
specimen drawer weather static wind-blown number station
solar noise cloud formation storm titration wireless smoke-filled sky

broke ground broke thatch broke net broke flow
telegraph rhizome circuit network junction
flag siren point nutrient carbon tangle
broke ratio physics orbit fixed-point evolution
clue drawer box film parchment vinyl
blood feather stalk beak grass root
paper stamp store mark transect photo record image cell
before axe pick shovel hoe oxen plow
before hard ground was broken
still woven yellow green ticker
tape pulsed code transmission
echo vacuum tube transistor
circuit still electrified
& living

ignite !

these

solitude
not silence
every morning
heat rises
in this
basin
these bones

polar landscapes
melt
colonists of wind
dust storms
settle the globe

no rain
longing
thirst
drought
it was like this
every morning

watering can
metallic echo
pale green
drip

industry!
empty hands
vacant skull

hero

the repairman rider passenger lone bird

grass blade dyke (our hero zero rider ze)

left the throng of city depot
arrived alone worn suitcase sandwich lukewarm coffee thermos
tepid brown liquid greasy paper
rusted texaco station folded map
urgent mission
fix the system
repair reclaim rebuild reweave restore
this prairie meadow sequestration

echo

cast projections
shadows along
interior walls
the mind's
ceiling
vowels
a hollow echo
text
&. white
space

i mean a
blank
echo
gravity
word orbit

suspended minutes
blackhole now-ness
careening weeks
eye of the hurricane
in its stillness
drew in whole
years

mineral

why is this night this day this hour this moment different from all others?
stable state equilibrium
mirage
set of gears & struts
form change adaptations
choreography mathematics theorems
natural law physics stars
tonal signature nutrient profile
language alphabets symbols
drawing cave drawing sky drawing skull
flux flow rise
difficult to capture
carbon currency
mineral constraint
trophic level
efficiency
short ladder
polyphony topology
C N P basis vectors
weather
tides light plow
poison shattered
maps fractured
space faster
time spinning
gears

this

city of sleep city of masks city of subway & turnstile
too close stand back headlights
tracks nyx boat coin chaos birds
stain permeate imprint drench spill
illuminate transcribe prime stretch nail

theater of the very small theater of passions theater of stairwells
theater of windows of doors of bus stop shelter of boat of wind of oar & effort
railway roadway highway meadow
this place this platform this vacant
iowa small tool shed top hill grave field

modulation

photosynthetic fusion carbon pool
sequester sequester bury deeper
down & under & soil & fossil & black oil
ink memory frozen fire

this then this a ritual grassland reclamation
(re)enactment
action painting action coding
abstract insurrection
repair sound reverberate
thrum thatch call
a bird blade leaf stem
frequency vibration
signal short wave
modulation resonation
radio photo destination
a photosynthesis
transfer raw vertex junction pivot pools
food web weights & likelihoods
circle orbit cycling need
birth growth death decay
de compose release

sets

parameter variable matrix
grid structure thing
observation frame tool
equations models contours
distillation estimation
syntax set domain & range
functional translation

not constrained in columns
not implicit static vertex stone
explicit fluid statement sets
reified relations
triples
articulated
joins

the lattice the ladder the sky

queer isocline bent contour curve
topographic skew
blue green florescence rush
wide-hipped hue
the morning light chlorophyll
rubbed blades rain or dew
hush suspended ready electric
whispered static light
the lattice the ladder the sky

slender stem blade .&. meadow
harmonic structures ladders heavens
tonality ecology dynamics systems weather
synthesis loom radio sky

skull

skull telescope
recorded playback frame
incomplete phonetics
extinct past taxon gap
cipher thrivance teeming whole
an awkward re assemblance
blank missing vertex node
absent click track metrics scale & score

archive junk drawer weather babel chaos din
vinyl recordings musical notations
frequencies harmonics rhythm velocities
charges changes coupled difference equations
probabilistic time series snapshots samples pressings indices
the symbols were known but the phonetics were lost
the clocks were out of phase
pulse & counting skew

glint

downward glance creased map marked path
radio research building institute
factory platform station
slant rusty hinge door sunlight
spider housings metal glint antenna
vines static deep dark corner silence
vinyl recordings specimen drawers
faded paper census sketchpad marks
lost language fallen angels
frozen role enactments
jukebox score
piano rolls
silent tattered scripts

stored inside this moss bound station
critical to the mission
notes numbers data
handbook manual translation codes
recorded ghost grass chorus
dried pressed limbs reed blade stem seed
circuit diagram equations

slant

downward glance creased map marked path
radio research building institute
factory platform station
slant rusty hinge door sunlight
spider housings metal glint antenna
vines static deep dark corner silence
vinyl recordings specimen drawers
faded paper census sketchpad marks
lost language fallen angels
frozen role enactments
jukebox score
piano rolls
silent tattered scripts

stored inside this moss bound station
critical to the mission
notes numbers data
handbook manual translation codes
recorded ghost grass chorus
dried pressed limbs reed blade stem seed
circuit diagram equations

&

field notes double reed hollow log
breaking hard ground
thatch root millennia ruptured disrupted
buffalo fire & the fire tenders
lace boots & => functions of lists reduce / fold filter map
irretrievable calculation distillation contours
physics of oars physics of rope & gears
physics of taut independence bound inter dependence
cycling time flow graph calculus of change & motion
tangents & intersections flux weather elements wind
there exists an x a y a maybe just nothing
suppose this
not silence exactly

particles of speech particles of sound particles of exchange
molecular transfer diagrams schema ontologies syntax relations
punctuations blank space lines unfolding hollow tunnel echo static dial
encode translate transform (re)cover uncover reverse
verb => noun => past tense
neural net language drip radio wave resilience
co2 => biomass => soil
the deep & tangled dark sea horizon wind sail blades of grass
sky to earth to text texture textile

cell

industry(!)

stop gear
backspace

particle wave oscilloscope
rhythm beats tonal frame measure arc

sanctify
dance score action plan
syntax grammar punctuate
formula method outline theorem proof
silver set of slides
count map pulse
particles of speech
observe measure metric record journal data log
structure filter draw blueprint box
cell lattice web net moth flame
formula physics flow heat
electric gear locomotion transformation
fold reduce fix mend undo redo sew sow
archive find search echo
resonate release

chains

how is this night different from all other nights?
short trophic chains
webs constrained
nutrient enrichment enigma
nutrient paradox nutrient cage bind limit
stable state dream fragile balance
weather heat rain flood fire
orbit cycle chaos
hydrogen oxygen ::: so hard to fuse
weld spark twist
ecosystem metrics gears & struts
evolution adaptation
form(s) of change

a

faint signal pale wave slow current faraway transmission
faded recording
long ago the far away a t-cell twist like this it goes
that jukebox love song jukebox archive jukebox dance song
rusty turnstile chance song billiard dice song co2 roulette
trophic past text particles of speech
trophic cascade light water steam then ghost

corner bar stool
the repairman rider passenger lone bird
grass blade dyke (our hero zero rider ze)
napkin blueprints cipher curves & codes
beer-stained formula calculations configurations
phase plane transformations

lingual

physical laws governing theorems systems form & function
n-body species interaction multi lingual multi scale stoichiometric
molecular spectral choral networks
multiple frame rates multiple scales projections synchronized moments colliding
separating departures arrivals hydrology of energy & material & landscape & time (clocks)
meeting at a time at a table in a cafe in a town on a specific day
a moment specific coordinates
exchange of goods voyage of goods transference encounter
chance the niche habitat fractal niche
harmonic series resonating sympathetic vibrating stable tonal isotopic
ladders chutes pipes circuits
currencies carbon nitrogen phosphorous rain
ladders pipes circuits energetic exchange system currency commerce
transformation conversion manufacture of material information transmitted
synthesis of data production efficiency nutrient use economy
intelligence craft gears assembly pipelines factories blueprint
conservation of energy expenditure of energy conflagration carbon
coal bones oil organics drilled excavated broken harnessed released

no

it was like this every morning
every night
every afternoon
every hour every day every particle every sweep
of hand every nuclear click digital + &
watches for sale for locomotion
for steam oil coal crash

knapsack traveler nomad grazer quest pollinator pathways routes
corridors migrations disrupted interrupted poisoned clock stop last page
extinction countable few zero gone
fragmentation no chute no ladder no path no way through over under
bridge collapsed railway fallen circuit broken echo dulled
tape erased
invisible map red-sky morning red mourning red warning
self assembly
the art of
steering listening
reception feedback
fluidity response
count back count back
systems cognition circuits learning emergence flux flow
code embedded deep in cell in memory in twisted strands an alphabet a code

of

homeostasis functions script energy production
flows & motion
minerals carbon
produced consumed released
the mill
the body ::: a federation
web loom constellation
temporary boundary of skin
stoichiometric polyphony
chorus set of strings

chemistry & light

reading
physical traversal
visceral traversal
repeat repeat loop
link pause dwell leap
hypertext state machine
railway navigation
photosynthetic bit flow
binary twist
one zero distance field
microscope telescope
molecular astronomy
infinite between

transcribe

city of sleep city of masks city of subway & turnstile
too close stand back headlights
tracks nyx boat coin chaos birds
stain permeate imprint drench spill
illuminate transcribe prime stretch nail

theater of the very small theater of passions theater of stairwells
theater of windows of doors of bus stop shelter of boat of wind of oar & effort
railway roadway highway meadow
this place this platform this vacant
iowa small tool shed top hill grave field

contours

cloud upside down root sequestration
stop hold bar block this avalanche of loss
skeleton machine skull writing ceiling wailing keening siren howl feedback broken
wire cricket friction klezmer waltz reed membrane wind bone mallet hollow stem
a regiment of meadow
circus tent swirling dendrite dervish dance cybernetic helm storm mast mass
sunless subway depth

horsepower wind dams & mill harness velocity reactant
nutrient use production efficiency industry! rhizome microbes bacteria
soil rushes moss wing drawers files books tape press type ink compression & encodings
digital transcriptions vinyl pressings drawings equations journals samples collections bodies
filaments antenna wing skull vertebrae jaw hand stalk leaf flower pollen
route cellular trace remnants residue
film plaster fossil cave ochre & charcoal forms contours the hunt the relation the web
pins papers stamp data survey study researcher walking catching pulling recording retrieving
net knapsack bullet glove transect count map compare average mean value
variation noise signal caught taxonomy of system observation of change
record function deduction of web

industry!

industry!
gears machines efficiency
plow & yoke
breaking ground
carbon cycling
bound flow
tensile vectors
release capture
web cycle graph system lattice
plumes & spills

basis

why is this night this day this hour this moment different from all others?
stable state equilibrium
mirage
set of gears & struts
form change adaptations
choreography mathematics theorems
natural law physics stars
tonal signature nutrient profile
language alphabets symbols
drawing cave drawing sky drawing skull
flux flow rise
difficult to capture
carbon currency
mineral constraint
trophic level
efficiency
short ladder
polyphony topology
C N P basis vectors
weather
tides light plow
poison shattered
maps fractured
space faster
time spinning
gears

torn

microscope observatory tiny vial
tiny xylophone tiny ribcage

tube => transistor cathode ray tube
raster digital pixel knowing
language drawing vector contour lost

cloud of pixels probabilities clump densities likelihood noise
boltzmann entropy analogue encoded signal computation
digit swarm translation

literature science novel science poetry science
narrative past text pollination
picture science syntax metaphor diagram
divine static steady state
mythic science
evolving ever changeful circle science
taut self-organizing orbit science
geometric atmospheric light nitrogen
nutrient profile adaptation
mineral light weather water
vial drop science
torn curtain broken window chaos science