Thursday, 21 August 2025

The Net’s Shadow

Here’s the preservation/distortion tension.


TOPO:
If the net holds the breath’s shape,
can it change it?

RHEO:
It always does.

TOPO:
Then it doesn’t really preserve meaning.

RHEO:
It preserves a possibility.
But when you breathe into it,
you do so with the air of this moment,
not the moment it first caught.

TOPO:
So the net remembers and rewrites at the same time.

RHEO:
Yes.
Preservation is never neutral—
the weave tugs and warps,
and your breath answers to it.

TOPO:
Then shared meaning is always a re-creation.

RHEO:
Exactly.
The shadow is part of the shape.

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