KARISSA HAHN

KARISSA HAHN

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KARISSA HAHN
  • APERTURES (A BRIGHTER DARKNESS)

    and just as the swelter plateaus toward a vertical horizon
    the curtain falls flat in motion
    a hinge unlatches from sill
    and a slab of paint is finally relieved, alighting
    the window continues to open

    and the window continues to open, continuing so
    so that it has gone off the frame
    a swift a...

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  • ASSUMPTIONS OF YOUR PHANTOM(SY)

    The glorious nature of a phantom-like entity.

  • CATARACT CHURNING GREY

    becoming cataract, a hot steam mingles and churns cool fog
    swelling gray film frames, the burning and fade

    [inspired by the prose poems of Russell Edson and "This Solitude of Cataracts" by Wallace Stevens]

  • EVICTION, DEMOLITION

    Suddenly, the last time in a home.

  • (I)FRAME

    A video is a stream of information and this moving image relies upon the relationship of static frames which are algorithmically determined....

    In the language of video compression, the (I) frames are the reference points between which movement is interpolated.

    Manual deletion or misplacement ...

  • IN EFFLUENCE ACCORD; EMULSION

    Musings of leeway, an illusive figure emerges from the emulsion.
    One strip of Super-8 film is reconstructed, taped onto 16mm and then re-filmed on the optical printer.
    The effluence according to its new emulsion, becoming a reflection of its own action.

    "As the depicted scene slides down again...