My last experimental post of the "little" tomb at Newgrange and the sunset in Colorado's Black Canyon put me in a conjoining mind. Since I don't think most mental things happen by accident; I am curious as to why I chose to put those two together, regardless of how I might technologically frame them. First, they both are photographs from my (and my wife's) initial travels trips after retirement when we began to work out the bugs of our mutual retirement travel plans. Second, I chose them both to play with images related to this trickster blog because they were generated digitally and they seized my attention when looking for non-copyrighted material. Third, both images are driven by the diurnal events of sunrise and sunset (anyone who wishes can break in to song from Fiddler on the Roof if they so desire) -- this is, the liminal qualities of sunrise and sunset, solstice or equinox; or even variant methods of posting data are what marks a trickster understanding of our percepts and epistemic process. If Trickster walks the margins, then those times, places, or set of events that are so clearly boundaried are places were Trickster can be found. It is our process of signing, our process of knowing, or our process of digitally dividing up the analog stuff that is the hallmark of human culture -- where we know the rules and signs are both arbitrary and immensely important.
It is the very fabric of time, time's arrow, and the janus sign that helps us to recognize the temporality of our distinctions (cultural, philosophical, religious, or scientific), and the sidereal drama, framed by the limits of our calendric understanding, are continual reminders that most of what we consider permanent is, as a matter of fact, much more arbitrary. Trickster, as generative force, cultural hero, buffoon, appetite, or conqueror of monsters, is a scripting of the human capacity to shape the world and a reminder that the shaping of that world is only one of many means of shaping it. I suppose that such realization brings either horror, delight, or boredom, but one the margins are shown to be moving, Trickster has helped make this world a much more bearable place.
It is the very fabric of time, time's arrow, and the janus sign that helps us to recognize the temporality of our distinctions (cultural, philosophical, religious, or scientific), and the sidereal drama, framed by the limits of our calendric understanding, are continual reminders that most of what we consider permanent is, as a matter of fact, much more arbitrary. Trickster, as generative force, cultural hero, buffoon, appetite, or conqueror of monsters, is a scripting of the human capacity to shape the world and a reminder that the shaping of that world is only one of many means of shaping it. I suppose that such realization brings either horror, delight, or boredom, but one the margins are shown to be moving, Trickster has helped make this world a much more bearable place.
.........take it the limits
