Paraselene is a phenomenon in the halo family. It’s the illusion of a quadruple moon that’s produced in rare atmospheric situations.

In Magic, the game, when Parasclene is cast you must let go of all enchantments. Every persistent illusion, every ongoing magical effect.

To stop believing that the light will always turn green. That the house is for sale. That there is a house. That there is Rome.

In 2022 or so Alan Longino sent me a press release that he wrote for The Square at Noon bis in 2019. It was scrapped before I ever read it. Gently, in a way I find compelling even if personally deflating, he says that he can’t find meaning in my work.

In 2002 or so I remember having a conversation with Jim Brittingham, in front of the fireplace at my parent’s house in Flagstaff. We were trying to warm up his feet because maybe he had hypothermia. I was saying that I didn’t really care if my work meant anything and that I didn’t believe anything really, actually meant anything. I said that I was…