Friday, December 23, 2011

Out My Back Door (Click to view animation)

Imagine you are standing on the edge of a great lake.  On the horizon there are tall pines, reduced to dark tufts of fur.  The next moment, the trees are only soft clouds with dark undersides.  You can't be sure.  It's the middle of the afternoon, it's impossible to tell how long you've been there, but everything has the warm color of dusk in the summertime.  You are extremely drunk.  Are those reflections the dark lines of a sailboat's mast, or are they low hanging branches?  There's almost no way to be sure.

Beuna Vida (Click to see animation)

The object of the game is simple:  Touch the Wall.  It's such an innocuous task.  One must have touched several walls on any given day, maybe thousands in a lifetime.  Maybe more, who's to say?  But then the challenge is placed directly in front of the competitor and he or she is forced to imagine the consequences of their daring.  Breathe deep, collect your thoughts, imagine fingertips brushing, scraping on the surface of the wall.  It's so dark.  It's wet.  What will happen?