CENTRAL STATION: Exploring Unseen Connections IMAGE: a recapitulating 9-tiered coiled structure emerging from a point of light inside a paired parentheses. Sam: (scratching his head) What's this art work got to do with America? Terri: I dunno. Isn't it jes a collection a' patterns 'n colors? Tim: What's anything has anything to do with anything? So many relationships seem arbitrary at first. However if you look beneath the surface, the connections are sometimes surprising. Kris: Precisely! Some people don't want to be surprised. They simply want to confirm the opinions that they already have. . . . ================================================================================= from _AmeriSong: Poetry, Art, & Dialogs about Amerika_ by T Newfields SUMMARY: A futile attempt to deconstruct an inexplicable image. KEYWORDS: Russian Doll structures, inexplicable normativity, phenomenological detachment Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955) Begun: 2000 in Nagoya, Japan / Finished: 2020 in Yokohama, Japan Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}} Granted < LAST http://www.tnewfields.info/AmeriSong/cap.htm TOC http://www.tnewfields.info/AmeriSong/index.html NEXT > http://www.tnewfields.info/AmeriSong/petro.htm