Caroline Bergvall

About Face (opening section)

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            Begin a f acing

at a pt of motion

How c lose is near to face a face

What makes a face how close too near

Tender nr pace m

just close enough makes faceless

too close makes underfaced

 

 

                        Ceci n’est pas une fesse

Past nest urn face

sees here your passing

 

 

                        This is not a face

yes transcrpt

s easier li this

                        A face is like a rose

th n fss

correlated to ah yes tt t

waltzing t change

 

 

When faced a point is found

            & many others

Everything you’ve faced not nt

writn portrays

            Time taken

stands in for

 

 

When found a point is brought out

You erm n it point by point tracks the fat of lines

Yet faced marked distance

 

 

I’ll always remember this painting because I couldn’t see it.

It was displayed at waist height behind a chair covered with glass but next to the window so that glass caught the glare.

 

 

Distance a crossing that needs accidents good fortune

A crossing that needs does beckon

quite li unlike

            each sticking pt

each separate focus

proximity head-on makes too fast

unless drive-through like dotted

 

 

Doodling

            very

yes necary

            sgot a loose

                        line

 

 

            At which pt to face begins

A total part of what cannot be backtracked

points rto impact at the enckline neckline

beyond the impl

gated body limit

 

 

Face-corporeal signals a bulk

a corpsi congl, m

            ration of means

-ng in relation to, what phase might be

 

                        at arms length

 

 

Found as of

Shh at t time

the way it was procesd, was that

a lasting relation to

 

 

Large face-markets exarcerbate the need

            mm

first a marker then a collection

            mm

face-medallion fly on the glass

            mm

Ccollect small figures figurines

 

 

                        This is not a face

                        a face arises

A face arose is like a redred like a-parting

likely to a pear is likely to disappear

Envisage brings on more

 

 

More insidious more penetrating than likeness, the Photograph sometimes makes appear what we never see in a real face (or in a face reflected in a mirror): a genetic feature, the fragment of oneself or of a relative which comes from some ancestors…the photograph gives a little truth, on condition that it parcels out the body.

 

           

            I mean, plotting

One face is pulled off from bark

-in language proudly

            One face is pulled off by eating much language

            Figured much eating choking on face

Veg erot, think about,

                        -gnize

would have it such a banquet

                                    satiates and praises

 

 

One face fits horse-like fits describe

Ceci n’est pas une bride

                        A face is like a horse

horse-like without horse

 

 

This fac is a natural extension of the grid

Angled fact won’t kerb

Figure prepares to faceload

Timely clocks

            cheese-transcript

straight at t

doesn’t even look amended

Camra

face tools

erm small technology

speed up splinter shrapnel

fades on paper

 

-ly speaking

Washes out quickly

in the light

 

 

                        Parting-like a raised-like

Like like like like

Unlike unlike unlike unlike

            ly

                        meet