Hinging the Parallax

"Hinging the Parallax" consists of "three panels hinged together, each approximately 5'X30", [and] was conceived as a standing screen for the living room of a home. The text of the central panel was culled from a journal I kept in Albuquerque NM, to which were added dreams, quotes, and fragments of quotes within quotes, the trope I call 'invagination.' The left-hand panel is a poem, a 'refiguration,' made by scrambling the words of the main text using an algorithm written for me by Australian artist Luke Pellen. By using the same words in a different order (not leaving as is, as some Dadists did, but re-grammatized), not only would a new text emerge, but, in an act of etymological faith, the aura of the original work would remain. The right-hand panel is a paratext, a repository of keyed citations, and some further remarks.

As the project was conceived for panels linked by hinges, this electronic version does not consist of hyperlinks. Instead, it begins as sample of the three panels placed side-by-side, with each panel is linked to its full-size." -- Joel Weishaus