Origins of speech
Origins of sight
Origins of thought
The regular rhythm of a live beating heart.
The light of an object and its internal image.
The sound of a tuned wire in vibration.
The weight of a stone.
The reflection in a bowl of clear water.
-Note, 1983
An Instrument of Simple Sensation, 1983, video/sound installation
video as mode of sensory experience, observation
Grazing as Pure Meditation
...Those cows and I sat there for eight hours.
They were much more at home than me.
They just 'sat.' Pure meditation, prairie
mind, at one with the landscape.
-Note, 1986
I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like, 1986, videotape
line of sight...the gaze of an animal...we see ourselves in its eyes while sensing the otherness of an intelligence ordered around a world we can share in body but not in mind.