Comments on: Surface Flatness | 2412

By: tracydurnell.com

tracydurnell.com — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 22:25:03 +0000

Links to blog about – Tracy Durnell’s Mind Garden

By: Surface Without Substance | 2509 - thejaymo

Surface Without Substance | 2509 - thejaymo — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 17:24:07 +0000

[…] written before about the surface flatness of contemporary society, but these two shows reignited the idea. There is, I think, a compelling […]

By: Somewhere Inside The Network - thejaymo

Somewhere Inside The Network - thejaymo — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 17:10:06 +0000

[…] and Pete posted some thoughts on my recent show about ‘Surface Flatness‘. Both of them had some great points, and I, like they, said in various variations have some […]

By: First Person Memory | 2415 - thejaymo

First Person Memory | 2415 - thejaymo — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 08:35:11 +0000

[…] in the summer of 2003. The very same camera, so hot right now, with Zoomers wanting to escape the super saturated flatness of the 2020’s. Retro tech invoked to dislocate themselves from our high definition era. Instant […]

By: Cathedral of Screens | 2421 - thejaymo

Cathedral of Screens | 2421 - thejaymo — Sat, 31 Aug 2024 13:51:28 +0000

[…] I’ve touched on the flatness of our current world before, but this week, standing in that store, seeing these devices collectively rather than individually, the depthless uniformity became glaringly apparent to me. The Apple Store with its LED white light strips any depth or warmth from the machines, that they might come to possess in a more personal context. […]

By: Nadreck

Nadreck — Sun, 14 Jul 2024 22:47:07 +0000

This post has some pre-requisite reading to get the most out of it: Jay Springett’s post about Surface Flatness and how the internet is feeling…

By: David Lewis

David Lewis — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 19:54:17 +0000

In reply to Jay Springett. Yes absolutely, I started with it linear but linking them together created this kind of distributed effect where no one poem was more important than the others. The meaning sort of transformed and changed in this form and it felt more mutable and unstable hence the thrashing.I did some things that change depending on the path you go down as well, so suddenly it felt like exploring a new place. Glad you like it and thanks for the podcast!

By: David Lewis

David Lewis — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 19:52:03 +0000

In reply to Jay Springett. Yes absolutely, I started with it linear but linking them together created this kind of distributed effect where no one poem was more important than the others. The meaning sort of transformed and changed in this form and it felt more mutable. I did some things that change depending on the path you go down as well, so suddenly it felt like exploring a new place. Glad you like it and thanks for the podcast!

By: Jay Springett

Jay Springett — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 17:58:19 +0000

In reply to David Lewis.

I love this! I See that it’s a collection of poems you placed inside a hyperobject.

Was it the arrangement of the links to the idea/pieces, the connecting of the ideas, that brought about the thrashing?

Thank you so much for sharing it with me.

By: David Lewis

David Lewis — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 12:26:47 +0000

Really enjoyed this episode. Your metaphor of water really resonates with me. I made this weird poetry Twine thing (https://davidralphlewis.itch.io/reality-adjustments) and it felt like a rough ocean, mutating and thrashing. The depths were more unknown but reached towards the surface. Something about Twinr lends itself well to these interlinked projects I find. Good luck with yours!