Travis Hedge Coke
There is Nothing Left to Say (On The Invisibles)
Light Bend Backwards
by Clive Nolan
Clive Patrick Nolan is a photographer and psychotherapist who lives in Snowdonia, Wales.
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Shared Territory//Lonely Symmetries
by Travis Hedge Coke
1The tree
King Mob has eyebrows like a villain from Thunderbirds, a Daniel Day-Lewis face, a shaved head Grant Morrison will adopt, inconsistent facial piercings, and Steve Yeowell tried to draw him somewhat Asian.
The back cover of the first issue of The Invisibles has Woody Harrelson from Natural Born Killers.
Draw a dog house. Draw someone not you. Draw a kind of tree which you have not recently touched.
Every keep hanging on motivational poster and ironic meme is an invocation of sacred self-elected hangings.
2The boat
Editor Stuart Moore dreams of an interactive website or disc version of The Invisibles, to let you construct a narrative chronologically or by specific character.
“May the infinity be left without stars.”
Josephine Baker is a secret agent?
“The entire scheme is in the Chaldæan Book of Numbers, and even in the Zohar.”
3The deer
Rearrested angels.
Reasserted angler.
Empathy for self-healing artifact.
The Invisibles is a roman à clef. Elements, activities, regions, and people reflect real life, non-comics events, places, and individuals. The Invisibles can open for us, flower for us, when we line up the key
Arranged treeless.
Resealed stranger.
Dressage relearnt.
4the melon
I am allergic to watermelon.
The Invisibles is a roman à clef, but having any key to those biographic meanings is no prerequisite.
I am allergic to assuming too much.
I am skittish of assuming I know.
5The Dipper
There are three or there are five forms of nonsense.
There are three and there are five forms of nonsense.
While a voice tells us how water runs over a hand and makes a different path with each pour, that pores and hairs and tremble and situation change in minuscule but important ways, in a movie, we internalize it different each time we hear and when we recall.
Imagine drawing chaos from order. Imagine drawing water from a well.
Draw yourself from the past, a tree from your past, and a home from your past. They cannot find the Chaldæan Book of Numbers.
6Cactus
We all use static, obfuscation, noise, humor, the anxiety of others overlapping against our anxiety, to screen out consequences of the content we present. Make all art, all heart, a cactus. Needing only rare water, needling at unasked for touches, firm, healable, able to reconstitute and flower.
Supersensual magic mirror spikes.
In my memory of a book written on cards a character written in words says she is only a picture written on air. Timesuit. Fiction suit. Memorial scallopsuit.
Make of all your heart something which can be jellied, pickled, shaped, and let alone.
7The crown
Everyone reads their own comic, while reading the same comic.
The comic in your recollection of a comic you once read or the comic you assume of a comic you have not read.
Draw a tree, a person, and a home, but draw them to scale as best you can.
The sense above your head is also below your feet.
8The Palm
Television suggests we are done with Lent and now have the Mark Wahlberg 40-Day Challenge.
It is nice to feel you have the approval of other audiences, and especially of experts. Word of God is something ringing in our souls about every television show or movie or poem, unless we despise that god or that word.
9the scorpion
There are so many authors. As many authors as there are thoughts about, reflections on, additions to, corrections from any work.
Contradiction bites. A curse.
Do the roofs of your home drawings reflect the intellect or spirit of yourself or anyone you know?
Do the hands of the people you drew tell anything about their aggressiveness?
What of your self-concept can you see in your drawings of trees?
Why did one issue of the comic come with covers resembling plain brown wrappers to mail pornography?
10The bandolon
The lure of breaking the law.
Flatback, fish string, allure.
There is law and there is also the law.
92The flag
It was not illegal to be a lesbian in the United Kingdom in the 20th Century, only criminal.
What is ontic terrorism?
What is the difference between nationalism and demonizing a nation?
What is the red for in the flag?
Maud Allan was on social trial for sedition towards her nation, but convicted in the hearts of her nation of treason for knowing what a clitoris is.
82The violencelo
Puns about violins and violence are old hat.
Drama is when our actions affect the world. Melodrama is when the world steers our actions.
There are strings on everything but me.
How long Pinocchio’s conscience lives depends on how you heard it.
72The mermaid
Siren, mermaid, nymph, seal. The nonsense of the call, the caul, the klaxon.
62The barrel
Draw yourself. What is a political actor?
Draw yourself trying to not be yourself. What is shame?
What is storage and how does it differ from stowage? Draw your spirit.
52The heart
What is a social actor, biologically? Are you more comfortable with a drawing of a heart that is biologically correct, a heart symbol, symmetric or detailed?
42The crossed arrows
when peaks come together, in phase
peak comes with trough, out of phase
vesica piscis is out of phase
Overlap is interference
“Once a story has been started, it is never entirely quashed.” (Look up the author.)
32The pear
All action can be wu-wei. No action can be wu-wei.
A Chinese concept which can be transliterated to doing less, doing nothing, nothing doing, no action or nonaction, wu-wei is approach. Action which is not action because it is in accordance with natural and external happenings.
Listen to your friend.
22the heron
One bird can attack another and take from it some food it carries. Six birds can attack one another or gang on one. No amount of bullets fired at one another can reduce the number of bullets, but they can reduce the violence, over time. Unless you add more.
12The harp
If you were playing a game with yourself, how would you draw your favorite movie so you could guess it?
Try to sing or hum your favorite song all the way through beginning to end.
Taste in your mouth tastes which are not there, but which you know.
Feel a temperature which you are not being exposed to, using memory.
11The skull
The waves are antiphase. A sphere has over sixty-four thousand degrees.
Nihilo ex creato: a garden sometimes lies fallow.
10The parrot
9The watermelon
I still like watermelon.
A field in physics is any quantity which has value for any given point in space. A magnetic field is based around all points near a magnet.
Make a multimedia sculpture of whatever makes you sad. Take at least three days to complete it. Take nothing away. Only add.
Make a shoebox or similar into a beautiful home for your sculpture.
8The moon
Particles are excitations of energy in quantum fields.
Put your display box, your nesting box, away.
7The sun
What are the mass and charge of spirit? Can a ton of soul outweigh a ton of feathers?
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Nothing in There is Nothing Left to Say (On The Invisibles) is guaranteed factually correct, in part or in toto, nor aroused or recommended as ethically or metaphysically sound, and the same is true of the following recommendations we hope will nonetheless be illuminating to you, our most discriminating audience.
Echo of the Souls. Crypta.
Otra Era. Javiera Mena.
Mujer contra mujer. Sandra y Celeste.
Índia. Gal Costa.
