NOMEACUERDO (I-don’t-remember) Land
En el país de "Nomeacuerdo" Doy tres pasitos y me pierdo Un pasito para allí, no recuerdo si lo di Un pasito para allá, ay, qué miedo que me da En el país de "Nomeacuerdo" Doy tres pasitos y me pierdo Un pasito para atrás y no doy ninguno más Porque yo ya me olvidé dónde puse el otro pie En el país de "Nomeacuerdo" Doy tres pasitos y me pierdo
In the country of “I-don’t-remember-land” I take three steps and I’m lost One little step over there, did I take it I can’t say One little step further, oh, fright, I’m so scared In the country of “I-don’t-remember-land” I take three steps and I’m lost One little step backwards, I dare not step further Because I have forgotten again, where I placed my other foot In the country of “I-don’t-remember-land” I take three steps and I’m lost
-María Elena Walsh, 1967
Severed, unrepairable anonymous foot
Choreographed children long grown lunch on petrified log Patagonia, Argentina 1972
Methuselah, bristlecone pine 5000 years alive digital record, 1/250 seconds collapsing pixels inside a memory chip White Mountain, C A
Photographer, photographed Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest White Mountains, California
Common Northern flicker 7am alarm clock tap-tapping perfect circles Entrance and Exit insulated rafters, our A-frame home Mammoth Lakes, California
Spiral volute, coiled curling, winding, twisting, whorled, cochlear, denouement A future habitat, Agnes Denes
Paiute palimpset 13 moons 8000 year-old calendar INY436, Bishop, California
Flame colored Pyrrha Wild Willy’s awaits
I flutter and press my body against your light Mary Corse, Beacon, New York
Bituminous highway liminal drawing In-between-ness Nepantla
Fata morgana, hovering unheeded neon warning Sterling Ruby, Desert X Coachella Valley, CA
Invasive tamarisk ramosissima visitor center eradication Cut, lopped, and poisoned the painted ladies will miss you
Margin of error virtual storm Nancy Baker Cahill, Desert X Salton Sea, California
Italian fashion in the desert displaced, lost Eric N. Mack, Dessert X Coachella Valley, CA
Paused by architecture in the headlights cornered Albuquerque, New Mexico
Practiced hands once cut flesh, to remove, to repair, to heal all things need fixing
Outdoor indoor suspended sky Hans Haacke, 1964-65
Roadside bouquet neglect is your terrain transported eager seeds provoked
©alexa horochowski 2021
Focused Ukrainian trauma handcrafted idyll in the sierra catas eat all the fruit Argentinian ant armies seek entry