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searching blue pieces

no longer enough

in web nature

dense canopies of text

the light dim

your hand before your face

you barely see its outline

only fragments

jumps and gaps

we weed

sort & unearth

fly beyond

birds-eye views

maps emerge

dense & connected

deep forests of data

spawning digitalia

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you digest lived experience
in bits
regurgitating in word processors
you search & replace
section into headings
highlight & upload
convert speech to text
draft & document
filing pipe-cleaners
sticks, feathers & stone
converting memory
historical detritus
to digital traces

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stand behind bowers
feathers bristling
ones & zeroes
strut in the court

will it do?

churr & whistle
call to others
let fly
you return to courts that quiver

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we build by beak
mismatching the unrandom
winging
we claw text
each bit, each word
chosen to lure

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Research produces data detritus, leftover data rich with stories.
You can recycle human waste; creative practice and research in the Anthropocene, digital bowerbirding.

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blue satin bowerbirds
hoop pine forest
the Bunya Mountains
gathering twigs, leaves
forming domed tunnels
for lovers to pass through
scattered plastic lids
flower petals
outside, cattle paddocks
encroach, recede
trees stand tall
inside, grass and berries
painted with vegetable spit

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nests, paper
disintegrate to dust
organic, digital stories
entangle and hybridise

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we tinker, make do
with local terrain
collect borrow
hand and craft
beggars' riches

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blue mosaic pieces
narrow towards the bower

appear stronger

an Ebbinghaus Illusion

no fluke rather

a lyric essay for lovers

crafted illusions

disturb these artful entrances
scatter their objects
birds will restore the pattern

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 Satin Bowerbird - Joseph C Boone, CC BY-SA 4.0. Altered with remove.bg and ascii-art-generator.org

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make-do, do-make

back & forward

no sharp start or end
shaping bowers

words branch

writers observe

perve

scrounge scraps
steal arresting elements —

recycling for assemblages

in webs, anthropocene

we forage & feast

layer thoughts into nests

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write bowerbird
craft illusions
make-do do-make
visual digital
new forms
digest entice
save forest

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The Satin Bowerbird Optimizer (SBO) algorithm, mimics courting.
The best bower (prediction) has variables of flowers, fruits, sparkling objects, branches, and dramatic gestures. It adapts.