[syndicate] mine

[Lyanne Hui]

hay,

These are nice pictures, ......um......Maybe use it as a background and then 
write a story print on top of it, what do you think?


>From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim at panix.com>
>To: syndicate at anart.no
>Subject: [syndicate] mine
>Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2004 17:21:29 -0400 (EDT)
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>mine
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>http://www.asondheim.org/mine.mov
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>short sequence of west virginia mine bldgs. i'm embarrassed about these, 
i
>didn't do anything, just photograph them for whatever purpose, i'm not 
yet
>sure, i'm sure there's a background in the foreground somewhere, i'm not
>there yet, i've just been here a few days, but i've been in coal all my
>life, well that's not true, but i was raised in the anthracite district,
>well this is bituminous, still these resonate, heavily reduced in size,
>the moire patterns and indecipherable signage are a guarantee, perhaps
>these are a punctum in barthes' sense, i'm sure that's it, you're 
getting
>an insight into me, i know you're not particularly interested, my family
>wasn't a mining family, retail in a mining community, you'd hear the 
mine
>whistles blow, read of the deaths and cave-ins, mine closings and every
>day which mine would be operating when, the miners would check in and
>always polish on the radio, but i'm not embarrassed about these, i found
>them out, i framed and photographed with care, i'm certain of the 
reason,
>there's a foreman in the background somewhere -
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