The left hand of darkness

Light is the left hand of darkness and darkness the right hand of light. Two are one, life and death... like hands joined together... Ursula K. Le Guin, The left hand of darkness

This is a drawing exercise, recording in real time my left hand and a white paper, the right hand was not holding a pencil but rather adjusting knobs and patching oscillators, of a Jones Raster Scan, similar to the Rutt Etra Scan Processor, but one of a kind built by Dave Jones for Sara Hornbacher and powered by Signal Culture. It looks easy, but it is not so comfortable, rather a process of prosthetization in which a very familiar part of the body becomes alien, sucked by the uncanny vortex of the machines, in which we believe to see a glimpse of creation, when two index fingers touch each others, but the triangulation ends up with a merging unity which is unsettlingly revealing. In fact I added an idiom which I love, one of the very few things I learn in Mandarin here in Singapore: 孤掌难鸣 meaning something like It's hard to clap with only one hand, or It takes two to tango...

The piece is inspired by Vasulka's Scan Processor studies and by Ursula's novel.
"I'll make my report as if I told a story, for I was taught as a child on my homeworld that Truth is a matter of the Imagination" Ursula K. Le Guin, The left hand of darkness