guidance
"The gravest mistake a soul can make is believing that it is just one thing" - Charles Crowley in 'Folding: Memories as
Crease'
Welcome to the other side traveler.As you hold your book in hand, there are many emotions you may be feeling. Joy,
sadness, relief, confusion. These may not be emotions provoked by the object before you, but instead a state that exists
within you beyond the boundaries of this show. That's alright, in fact, that's important.You may, equally, feel nothing
at all. This is also predictable. Nothing you are experiencing is alien or impossible. So, let's embrace what you are
feeling and seek to help you make some sense of the object before you. You may find that you are perfectly content with
the object in your hands. The design, architecture and ergonomics of the object may be precisely what you want. If this
is the case, feel free to engage in any of the forementioned behaviours, but no obligation. Contentedness is a perfectly
acceptable experience. Don't let them take that away from you.For those of you, however, that find something stirring a
little deeper in you, a creature of ambiguous form creating a hollowness, an uneasiness, we've created a selection of
behaviours to engage in so that you may resolve or, at least, accept this stirring, especially in regards to your
relationship with the object in hand.
At the Alteration Node you may make changes to your object. Append to or from it, slice and splice, mince and mend.
Whatever resolves the object, engage in that mending at the Alteration Node.
At the Exchange Node you can trade your object out for another. We have the very best in Identity Brokerage to help
you find an object that best suits you. The Broker will work with you to get you nestled into an object you can truly
fall in love with.
Should you be so fortunate to attend the experiment at the proper time, you may encounter our local
Semiontacryptographer, a specialist in determination of meaning of objects so peculiar as your own. Queue up and get a
brief reading, hopefully declaring some sensibility into your object.
Walter M. Retrigard suggested that these objects may be an oculus, a viewpoint from which to consume the world of
meaning. Follow these brief instructions to form your object into an oculus so you may consider the world from this
view.
'Same way with dancing. You don’t aim at a particular spot in the room because that’s where you will arrive. The
whole point of the dancing is the dance.' - Alan WattsIf you feel so moved, you may find that your object is not so much
visual information as it may be a behavioural map, a dance guide. There is a gridded dance floor to accommodate the
activity of interpreting your object as a dance, to live your book for a moment with only the intention of living
A final note of warning: By Future Total's specifications, we have the Monolith in attendance, a form of tremendous
destruction and reset. You may feel compelled by it's cold resonance to insert your object into its head. I can not urge
you enough to avoid such behaviour. While not prohibited, the act of feeding the Monolith will result in the absolution
of your object, a transcendence for which there is no redemption. You have been warned.Thank you for attending this
localogical experiment. Any and all further feedback can be presented to howard@futuretotal.org