"Fruiting Bodies" by Troy's Work Table. Carport chalking for Friday 16 January 2015.
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Charcoal, sidewalk chalk, chalk pastels, Crayola neon sidewalk paint.
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Inspired by the descent into the "tower" in the opening pages of Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer.
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I took some liberties with what Jeff describes. This is an extreme closeup of a scene, pivotal to the rest of the novel (and to a lesser extent, the two novels that follow).
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The "tiny hands," "golden nodules," "spray of golden spores," and "curling filaments" are all as I picked them up off of the page and imagine them.
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The "meat and chaos" is mostly mine. It's an interpretation of what is happening to the biologist (the narrator of the novel) as she descends into the "topographical anomaly" that she calls "tower" and the others call "tunnel." For me, the "meat and chaos" is as physical as it is psychological. It is the tower walls. It is the later meetings with the anthropologist and the Crawler. It is experience and encounter.
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