Carter Haskins

Koyaanisqatsi (1982)

April 26th, 2023

Powerlines and gridlines, both natural and artificial, relaying data not from one place to another, but from one point to everywhere. There are patterns in the canyons, same as those created by circuits of mass transit. Everything everywhere coded to the exact same frequency, humans and water existing to serve the same purpose, changing their environment, breaking down the materials around them to create new ones, new systems serving no one, no thing but serving nonetheless. Waves are created, pushing data out but the ideas linger, the Waves become crowds, but they always have been, carrying with them the weight of everywhere and every thing they have ever touched, moving together and apart,

Somewhere deep in Space a star is born. It’s alone, just like everything else, Singular and infinite at once, the complexity of life, of the capacity to think and feel is replicated endlessly by every object, even those fated for silence. Light, Colors, Oceans, Trees, Phones, Television, Code, Cities, Concrete, Air, Rain, You, Skyscrapers, the Ground, the Sky, Mars and Jealousy all containing the same capacity to think and feel, hoping, desperately, to find meaning outside of the function they were created to perform. Performance through feeling, touching and holding, How tall is hope? What does air want? Why is happiness one color and not another?