{"id":131,"date":"2008-03-24T14:22:48","date_gmt":"2008-03-24T19:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.deepsicks.com\/?p=131"},"modified":"2022-03-19T20:48:43","modified_gmt":"2022-03-20T01:48:43","slug":"disintegration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/2008\/03\/24\/disintegration\/","title":{"rendered":"disIntegration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"852\" src=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/tcl_0038a-1200x852.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7699\" srcset=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/tcl_0038a-1200x852.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/tcl_0038a-768x545.jpg 768w, https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/tcl_0038a-1536x1091.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/tcl_0038a-2048x1454.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I first meet Sophia Delza at Vancouver&#8217;s premier spiritual emporium, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.banyen.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Banyen Books and Sound<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She is in the Used section, old and scarred, and I can&#8217;t stop staring at her. She is so beautiful. She is the most beautiful woman I have ever seen. Powerful, striking, graceful, wise. I pick her up with trembling hands, I put her down, I pick her up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I page through the poses\u2014poise, expressions unchanged, she is poison. Smoke blown in my face. carry her around the store like a secret possession but it&#8217;s she who owns me and it is too much. Put down. Picked up. A hundred dark eyes telling me, <em>You will never become me. You will never become yourself.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">It is not the way it has to be.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">It is not the way it should be.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">It is the way it is.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">It is the way it is the way.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ahem: My first foray into mutilated book art, using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/oclc\/11316380\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>T&#8217;ai-chi ch&#8217;uan (Wu Style): Body and Mind in Harmony<\/em><\/a> written by and starring said Sophia Delza. This project took approximately one million hours, a hundred thousand blades and too many cuts to count: his book drank my blood, yes it did. Enjoy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/im\/artpics\/tcl2.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/im\/artpics\/tcl3.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/im\/artpics\/tcl4.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/im\/artpics\/tcl5.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/im\/artpics\/tcl6.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/im\/artpics\/tcl8.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/im\/artpics\/taichibig.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She is in the Used section, old and scarred, and I can&#8217;t stop staring at her. 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