ATTEMPT AGAIN

Here goes, for the sake of process, another attempt at the image... and yet another...

Disasters

As we are struggling with the final image with all the words (below it's a first terrible trial), we may as well post some images from our trip. This should actually be organized into themes, such as: buildings, graffiti, and so on. But that sounds like a lot of work!

Hum... obviously related to our image for the Songline is the theme disaster :)

So here are some images of the disasters-to-be that pursued us along the journey.

There was the swine flu everywhere, Air Force One flying close to Manhattan for a spooky revival, tornado warnings and flash floods in Alabama, fires in California...

Listening at the news can be a frightful event for a traveler!

We must learn to hope in the absence of an expectation of progress

We've just updated the map of the Songline (in the title), making it coincide with our actual route. You can also grasp in that map the position where the words were built.

If you go to http://planob-songline.blogspot.com you can find the posts about the construction of the words in their right position in the sentence. Instead of being chronologically arranged.

Absence+Expectation+Of+Progress+We+Must+Learn+In the+To+Hope+Of an

After the construction of the words, the next task is to recompose their position into a sentence. The words were built in specific places trying to achieve a meaningful relation with those places: Absence in New York after 9/11; Expectation in Washington after the presidential shift; and so on. It was a conceptual relation, there's no univocal relation between the word absence and the destruction of the World Trade Center. It's a subjective meaning at best. Also, the construction of the words, their materialization, followed a rule of their own, dependent on the availability of materials, inteligence, humor; or the lack of all the previous.

Now the words will loose their independence and become part of english syntax and it's author intention: a new continent, so to speak.

We will try, in the next few days, to make a graphic composition of the entire sentence using images from our trip. We have already a recomposition of the songline map in the right order...