There’s a cult of African ants who construct arched hives, but only when populous enough. Until then, they specialize in false starts, When enough exist – not enough workers, or enough pushers, or enough grasshopper guards, but simply enough ants – mass mind kicks in and arches arch. Pre-mind arches arch up and over till over. Mass-Mind inserts keystone.
Why do more ant units = keystone logic? What evolutionary advantage accrue arched ants? No Ant Popes? No Arch Ant Conservatives? No SubCult MassMind McDonald franchises? (tho believe too late for latter’s prevention.)
Ant politicians must be one happy critter: for once it IS quantity, NOT quality.
The Texas rabbits I understand. They reach critical population density, they develop nervous disorder, they die. Make room for daddy
Which are we? Mass Mind in bloom of blossom? Or rabbit run?
every day the two dogs which kathy wrote about in her poem (in the previous blog) stop by, scratch at the kitchen door and ask if steve can come out and play. i go out, pet them for a few minutes as they bounce about, then send them on their way. i’ve never been visited daily by dogs before. i feel honored i’m part of their path. at least once a week they catch kathy and i on our walks and run with us. wonder how long it will take for them to stop stopping by after we go. i’ll miss them, our hosts, and istria (istria is the upper left triangular nipple of croatia hanging down into the adriatic sea to the right of italy).
one of the 5 art shows i was in in 2006 before leaving america last august is now online… Blends & Bridge – A Continuum of Visio-Textual Art. my 5 pieces in the show may be seen at http://www.bigbridge.org/bgcatalog66.htm
basic info:Â Bob Grumman, co-curator, along with Wendy Collin Sorin and John Byrum, of the “Blends & Bridges” visual poetry show in Cleveland in April, 2006, has created an excellent documentary of the show on the Big Bridge website… Nearly every work in the show is documented at http://www.bigbridge.org/bgpreface.htm.
thanks to John Byrum for letting me be part of the show. John and i go back a ways – he in my early ArtCrimes, and i in his Generator Press. with Jim Lang, John M. Bennett and George Fitzpatrick, we were in the Writing Vision, Visual Writing show in 1990 at the Willoughby School of the Fine Arts – the second show in which some of my pieces were censored (the first being Tri-C West). John’s publication can be found at http://www.generatorpress.com/.
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