ant sand

by Zeynep Beler, Min Yu [Zoom in] A YouTube video. 2D view of a tub of ant sand. With impossible speed, the ants drill vertical, erratically branching tunnels. Their highways form a picture. I know a girl who as a child had a babysitter that would switch the TV to a channel with no signal and tell her that the static was a documentary about ants. And the girl would watch that for hours. [Scale into] Cold defined as lack of heat but heat not defined as such. (Heat too much of a thing, cold too little.) Both states existing by the expedient of being pitted against one another. Reaching across the spectrum, a compromise of meaning. Texture as the hissing sound of water on the pan. Entropy explained in five words. "You can’t stir things apart." Squint and you can see. [Invert your head] The body of the ant as a square, migrating through the surface, as you microscale roughly four hundred times. (Split) Images (Repeat) form new dualities. (Line break.) The constituents merge without disturbing. [and out] Limited edition 240 copies Designed and published by FAIL Books, Istanbul 2018