Nathan Horowitz supplied the words to an image by Mikey G Ottawa for our second contest. This was one of several winning entries to use that image; look for the others over the coming weeks.
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5 comments in “fisheye”
December 16th, 2008 at 2:24 pm
This is wonderful, just wonderful!
December 17th, 2008 at 8:16 am
Clever, Nathan. Love it.
December 18th, 2008 at 12:59 pm
Cheers. This text is a piece of a slightly longer poem. If it works here, it illustrates the virtue of cutting out all that is not absolutely essential.
Mikey’s b/w photo reminds me of the 1980s, of memory, of gray winter days in student housing where the best heat comes from another naked body. The fisheye lens gives us two levels of reality, analogous to someone in the present reflecting on the past.
December 24th, 2008 at 9:23 am
I utterly adore this, especially the illustration like a telescope. Delish.
January 9th, 2009 at 7:43 am
[...] an image by Mikey G Ottawa (compare Nathan Horowitz’s treatment of the same image in “fisheye“), and told us, “I really did have a dream about lives going round in circles. When I [...]
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