Constructing and demolishing: manual to settle sediments

Dear Marco,

I welcome your micro texts, Puns and principles for me to interpret; Lexis and syntax sited, selected, sorted According to the formal attributes you draw. Eighteen pages will devolve and evolve. "Drawing as strip tease undressing the space." Text to tease your proverbs into parallel thoughts, Unraveling each fragment, combing each strand. Best wishes, Linda

Dear Reader: Marco Maggi's hand is nomadic. It accepts all contingencies, tracing paths whose sources and destinations reside beyond known peripheries, devolving to and evolving from originating marks. His pencil resists conceding to such stifling And controlling agencies of the spirit as mathematics, iconographies, nationalisms, rationalisms. His sculptures and drawings mature in fertile mediums of his own devising. Maggi's attunements track the eco concepts named by Gala, Gaia, Geb, Galal, and the Egyptian and Semitic gods of the earth. They guide these drawings and this collaboration--geomantrically. We resemble a conjugate partnership, one mutually-regulating organism. His positive magnetic fields attract and amplify my negative magnetic poles. His currents stem my course. My exuberance complements his constraint. His micro texts travel the globe to my office computer, like mini-electric pulsations coursing through invisible magnetic/geological/biological channels, not like the rigidity of bound books, foreordained text sequences, prescripted paginations, headings.

Geomancers delineate manifold unseen currents That course under, on, through, and around the planet; Low earth orbits, low frequency signals, low intensity fields; Magnetic forces, mineral veins, and microbial pathways; Found but unanticipated, sensed but unperceived; Tuned to energetic currents, timed to cardiogenic clocks. Maggi conjoins nature, technology, and art by creating "healthy earthquakes."

Dear Linda, It is not chaos; it is a new order. I love our labyrinth: air map, hair mop. I offer micro texts. Our rules are hidden. Risk is trust. Our friendship is dazzling. Marco Dear Marco, Then we agree. Your texts are my armatures. I will serve as their annotator and respect their measure. I will be the modulator of their frequencies. Your admiring friend, Linda Dear Patti, Micromarko and I have a plan for CAJ. We propose to set our course parallel to his drawing process, vanishing into and emerging from emptiness. We will conduct a "stereodialogue." Linda Dear Linda/Marco, I want CAJ readers to encounter your hybridity. Open engagement is an editor's dream. Patti

"Nowadays, telecommunications, printmaking, & mass media are illnesses. These innovations condemn us to know more while we understand less. It's not a contradictory process, it is a bad case of semiotic indigestion. Multi-millions of micro convictions replace old post-modern uncertainties." Maggi offers homeopathic certitudes, soft medicine, and a therapeutic touch; Acupuncture for global nervous systems and military metabolisms; Pacemakers for cardio waves, micro waves, nd radio waves. "Ninety percent of human knowledge is written in Mathematic symbols we do not understand, hence optimism exists in rubbled parts." His renderings are visual (p)arts of fiber-optics, gigabits, fractals, microchips, nanometrics.