From The Necro-Luminescence of Pink Mist

Skeleton Man Press has allowed us to publish an excerpt from Ed Steck’s new book The Necro-Luminescence of Pink Mist, which can be purchased here. Read Aaron Winslow’s accompanying interview with Steck and poet Kristen Gallagher here.

What structures would terminate the architectural prominence of historical encasement?

What would a dream terminate?

A dream terminates the accessibility of reality and prolongs fantasy.

A pink mist is an amalgam of pieces lingering from disruption.

A pink mist is a bodiless fantasy.

Puffing history terminally.

A pink mist is a film of two subjects displaced by an interruption but conjoined by shared sensations becoming extra-material: a composition of substance that lacks form but creates a dual language able to be formed.

What dream would terminate the lush, cushion-like prominence of a pink mist remembered and misremembered and remembered to exist on planes of experience shifting notional prominence into a physical encasing?

A dream of a pink mist disconnected from its origin, as its origin flickers, would terminated the lush, cushion-like prominence of a lived life solely remembered in its diminishing moment.

Ed Steck

Ed Steck is the author of An Interface for a Fractal Landscape (Ugly Duckling Presse, forthcoming), The Garden: Synthetic Environment for Analysis and Simulation (Ugly Duckling Presse), The Rose (with Adam Marnie, Hassla), sleep as information/the fountain is a water feature (COR&P), Far Rainbow (Make Now Books), DoorGraphicDataRecovery (orworse press), and The Necro-Luminescence of Pink Mist (Skeleton Man Press). His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, most recently at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. He is the editor of Theme Can, an online art and writing publication.