reddish brown
lightish brown
darker brown
grey brown
green grey
pink
darker red
grey
cream
flecked with grey green algae
green
with white lines
darker green
2 bright red berries peep out
black
blackish brown
tan
cheep cheep cheep cheep
ip ip ip ip ip ip
ch chi chi chi chi chi chi chi chi
bibibibbibibibi …
oh oh oh (sung)
wshhh ––––
step step
mulch mulch
hip toe
falter
crunch
pinecone
breeze
and now we come to asphalt
NO PARKING FIRE LANE
ouch
the tip tip across a storm drain cover
raised bumps felt under foot
FIRELANE
brwnbrrm above
in sky/air/overhead
grey corner
“oh – there’s your least favorite building!”
The chain link fence brings something into focus. Sight aims and fires at the horizon. Future fortunes inscribed across geographies – from “barren wasteland” to “Tijuana.”
yenoM evaS
OCIEG
pushes a red prop plane
3 bones in my ear – “my inner reptile” – vibrate with a rumbling energy – my brain translates as an engine – above to the right, the left
Lefebvre writes that “space is heard before it is seen”
the vestigial muscles around my ear move to hear that there
(San Diego, May 2016)
written while walking, during UCSD’s Studio for Ethnographic Design’s Seminar on Sensory Ethnography
Marina Peterson 