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Ex Opere Operantis.

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Nostalgia is a momentary shift in the experience of embodiment, where the composition andarrangement of the phenomenal present is reorganized according to ones memory of the past as

it exists outside and within the moment the shift takes place. In a word, nostalgia is the shadow

cast by the dusky horizon of the present.To experience nostalgia is to act on a dissatisfaction with the present; it is the fleeting,

melancholic embrace of one self to another, more ephemeral self. It can be the most inspiring act

of affirming one can gesture.

Nostalgia is the hesitation before you decide to shake an etch-a-sketch sand mandala drawing of

you and your friends.

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It is impossible to know what the subject of a photo would think of you/me/ theaudience starring at them. To make of them an object (of worship? of distain? of of-

ness...) that will more than likely be classified and digested by our insatiable culturalorgan. For me, here (and at the moment of the picture) this organ was behind my eyes,as they looked at the screen from which a picture of IIyn was being made. But evenbefore this hypothetical organic function, there was the spark of the divine, in a word,laughter. With those teeth, and her eyes like that, she has made fools of the gods, and,of us who look, monarchs of our own skin.

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Long live the native monarchies.

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The construction of a pyramid was, in ancient times, a sacred act of devotion, which testified toboth wo/man and god(s) that existence was a phenomenally dynamic affair that should be

celebrated despite, and, in large measure to, its unpredictability, it precariousness.

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Despite what has become the standard hypothesis of the moderns, the destruction of a pyramid wasnever conceived of as an architectural disaster, rather, it punctuated a moment in time where the world

and its guardians were no longer arrested in the realm of conception; it signaled the momentary in-breaking of the unconceivable the reality of death beyond death, beauty beyond beauty, and life

outside of life.

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