@sensor63 @telliowkuwp Does most language defraud experience? See beautiful coastline & say: That’s nice. Defrocked & defrauded, no?

— Keith Hamon (@kwhamon) May 5, 2015

Above is the tweet that got me inspired and thinking how haiku and animated gifs might work together to, in zen jargon, point toward the moon instead of naming it.

Below is the haiku that I wrote and placed in a Canva poster:

 

Lastly, I created  two animated gifs below using VideoGIF:

This gif shows a brush performing the Japanese enso character with the words encircled.

 

This second gif shows a reverse of the enso which is much more satisfying as a visual manifestation of the enlightenment trope that enso represents,  but without all the language baggage.  That was the thrust of the original tweets:  does language defraud experience?  I tried to represent that in the tweet exchange by creating an empty tweet–no content.

@sensor63@kwhamon

— Terry Elliott (@telliowkuwp) May 5, 2015

But there was still content, so the attempt below was an attempt to point toward language as the great, but necessary fraud and through it to something organic, alive, experiential and rhizoidally connected.

   

The haiku is also performed backwards.  It might mean the same backwards and forwards. Not sure, but I know this for sure–without the impetus from the rhizome, the inspiration of Simon and Keith none of this would have happened.  This is the unknown unknown that Nicholas Taleb writes about in his books.  Unpredicted and unpredictable, triggered by a long train of initial conditions, drawn through adjacency after adjacency, and emerging here, now, like the hyphae of a mycorrhiza.  Tweet—>Haiku–>Animated Gif–>and again and again on the edge of chaos.