Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generation beheld nature and God and nature face to face; we through their eyes. Why should we not also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should we not have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs? Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods of life stream around and through us, and invites us by the powers they supply, to action action proportioned to nature, why should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the living generation into masquerade out of its failed wardrobe?  The sun shines to-day also. There is more wool and flux in the fields. There are new lands, new men, new thoughts. Let us demand our own works and laws and worship.(emerson)

Holy is the Qua moment.  Tai Chi kid submerged into the Greeley woods landscape. The sun licks his face. It's warmth an orgiastic feeling, sexual in nature. He stills into his breath. The sound of the forest becomes vibrant. Everything dynamic, alive...

Naked In The Light...

 

Then it was cooler, and out across the water the sunset was usually beautiful. Men would be smoking their last cigarettes before dark or texting thoughts or attempting to secure their tents with a piece of driftwood.  The sounds of the battle were muted at night and the distant crackling of small-arms fire, the remote echoes of the artillery seemed detached from them. It was a confusing period, and most of them were pleased when they were assigned to them.

But Tyler Sid was not. He had been hoping against his better judgement that recon would be given the eight replacements they needed, and to his disgust they had been assigned only four.  (Mailer Naked and the Dead)...

The generals did not understand the battle.  They were far from the conflict lost in their abstraction of what warfare was.

 The zekelon acts as a bridge to higher consciousness...it is meant to counter act The Spectacle...and to awaken authentic desires, creating feelings of life and adventure and the liberation of everyday life..Tne Radio Dream is a Situationist construct, negating the alienation of life...exploring the shadow, coming to peace with it, and submerging the spirit into nature is its primary end...

 The zekelon is a garden of experience. It's plants are grown from the seeds of image, word, sound...planted by the members of the Ruby Kite, proponents of The Radio Dream. It is reached by imagination, fueled by the imagination, exists in the imagination.  As the children of Lorca and Hendrix, The Radio Dream seeks to demolish the demonic rule of Zack Smiter who has seized the imagination of the nation by enclosing it a glass dome, doping on a narcotic of cheap culture.

The tracks

the tracks led away from here to somewhere anywhere a woman would be inviting understanding you touching you the way you wanted to be touched. Ida May was that woman for Tyler.  He would come in from the Badlands...broken, tired, crazy...Ida never asked for an explanation....whatever he wanted to get into Ida was game for.  Tyler would hop the freight letting the tracks direct him on his escape.  He could forget his identity in the assumed one he had adopted to ride the train. the train took him into the light.   Into the landscape.

 

On going fantasy....

The idea had been to deconstruct the narrative in any manner possible.  Any material could be used.  In this instance Junky Fredo used branches spitted out from the trees after becoming sick from an awful hurricane...creating the sculptures Fredo to draw the viewers consciousness to the impermenance of existence.  Under the conditions that Zack Smiter had imposed, there was no death, everyone lived in on going fantasy....

Defamiliarize

The Radio Dream aimed to defamiliarize and restructure the experience of the present...what interested Tyler Sid was the here and now the historical U.S.A., the railroad tracks, the unbridled sweeping landscape, the intensity of the continental light. The revolutionary aspect of the Radio Dream was to deconstruct the proliferating stereotypes of a media culture that penetrated every zone of our existence.