Scaled Intensities Photographic Portfolio of images from Prolog Pages, Spain and Mexico.

Scaled Intensities

Photographic Portfolio of images from

Prolog Pages, Spain and Mexico

TangierIs there a human creature whom no none notices or greets

because he doesn’t knowhand signals or body language?

Not in these crowded alleys.Even one who assumes that he belongs to the category of

untouchables finds that citizens greet him cordially.

Necessarily, kindness in business afflicts this one deeply, even bitterly,

unlike those who expect to be served courteously.If he makes a good deal for an expensive item

and carries it away, is that plunder or trade?

BizcasAll night I rehearsed a triple murder

The perfect crimelike counting sheep

without a sense of gain

Bubion in La Alpujarra

Diario mexicano

Excerpts from Diario Mexicano at XCP: Streetnotes

My companion is a truck driver from Queretaro,employed now in Columbia, South Carolinaby a furniture company. He is well-informedon world politics and willing to chat about Mexican culture, in particular his taste in music, for instance cumbias and rancheros,and his pride in the baroque architecture of his town.For him, the bonds between indio and mestizo peopleswere simple cultural facts, affecting housing, diet and commerce,and, more deeply, spiritual health.In Banda Aceh, two babies who have lost their parents,lie on a turquoise mattress. In Ceylon, the man who pulls the girl from the torrent,rapes her repeatedly. On the borders of the river of mud,animals bray, screaming their panic; rabbits cry.El patrono del viaje es el dios del sol.I had returned to Manchester on the 25th,after an agony of waiting, because the plane for Méxicocould not depart Charlotte. On the 26th the Tsunamiinundated the coasts of the Indian Ocean, from Sumatra to Somalia.Seek in the New Year, favorable winds, prosperity, Ehecatl, for all children.