The Impermanent Site

A gathering of things that wear in.

Everything here is changed by being used, the way a leather case is changed by the hand that carries it. The marks are where the beauty is. Each room is one experiment. Some will become unreadable. That is allowed.

Start here: five rooms to begin with

  1. 00 How a page wears a short page to start with, yours alone
  2. 10 A pond everyone touches kept for good
  3. 16 A page for a thousand readers 935 of a thousand seats open, then gone
  4. 18 An old photograph kept for good
  5. 20 Wherever the weather is loudest kept for good

How a page wearsa short page to start with, yours alone

  1. 01 A page that is read into softness kept for good
  2. 02 The same page, under a sky kept for good
  3. 03 A week, kept until Monday reset each Monday at dawn
  4. 04 Someone else's sky kept for good
  5. 05 A place to stay a while reset each dawn
  6. 06 A garden grown from attention kept for good
  7. 07 Other people's windows kept for good
  8. 08 A bowl anyone may drop kept for good
  9. 09 A bowl of water kept for good
  10. 10 A pond everyone touches kept for good
  11. 11 A page read by machines kept for good
  12. 12 The same hour, in both halves of the year kept for good
  13. 13 The light of one roof kept for good
  14. 14 A garden with a gate kept for good
  15. 15 A pendulum that never repeats kept for good
  16. 16 A page for a thousand readers 935 of a thousand seats open, then gone
  17. 17 A photograph behind glass kept for good
  18. 18 An old photograph kept for good
  19. 19 A briefcase that wears in kept for good
  20. 20 Wherever the weather is loudest kept for good
  21. 21 The weather above the weather kept for good
  22. 22 A long exposure kept for good