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"Could Hear Them All at It" by Veronica Tonkin

7/20/2012

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8:56 pm

Olympic National Park, Washington, 3rd Beach Headlands 

Ayaviri, Puno, Perú Cathedral Bells 

Shush.  Hear that?  Oh sorry, did I startle you?  Didn't mean to make you jump; you must be more frightened by noise than light.  Or is it you thought you were alone on this beach?  Oh my darling, no no.  I'm right here.  Here in the tree.  Haven't you ever listened to a tree?  I'm waiting for them to turn me into a pillar so Isis can find me.  You know her?  She knows you.  We've been listening to you, haven't you heard us?  Listen around you.  All the world is listening.  Shh.  Better sit still. Use your eyes if you must but it's only getting darker so you might as well listen up.  There.  You hear me?  That's my Ba flying about. Listen.

Castlecomer Discovery Centre, Kilkenny, Ireland 

My Ba.  My face, my bat body.  Like a little man in a cloak I am with tiny hands.  Teeth instead of a beak.  Bells have scared my Ba out of me, well that and my death played a part.  Don't look so startled, my Ba will come back once Isis tears me out of this tree.  I'll live again, metempsychosis you understand, repetition.  You hear that repetition?  Patterns it is,  numbers too if you care to hear them.  Self similarity of sound, clustering like bats in a belfry.  You hear that?  Repetitions are forming relationships.  There.  Proportion.  Now we have something.  Consonance and dissonance and assonance and resonance.  All in fluxing proportions.  Bells, and Ba, and waves, and what is that?  Oh that's you!  Breathing, yes I miss that already.  And that other sound?  What is that?


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jorge
1/22/2013 09:59:12 pm

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7/14/2013 09:42:36 pm

The purpose of works of art may be to communicate ideas, such as in politically, spiritually, or philosophically motivated art; to create a sense of beauty to explore the nature of perception for pleasure or to generate strong emotions. Thanks.

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8/4/2013 09:14:42 pm

That is really a surprising scene. It exactly looks like a human ear. We can call such incidents as the nature’s miracles. If we start looking in to the nature we can see many such astonishing scenes and incidents. But people are so busy that they doesn't have time for such things.

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11/6/2022 09:00:55 am

Nice sharee

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