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THE HORSE NETTLE
a performance-work
by Séamas Cain

Copyright © 2003, by Séamas Cain

Photographs by Nicholas Levashov



THE HORSE NETTLE was performed
on November 23, 2003 in
Seneca Park at the
Museum of Contemporary Art in
Chicago, Illinois.



SÉAMAS
CAIN :

blackberry

blackbird

blackberry

blackbird

blackberry

blackbird

blackberry

blackbird



[tape]:

scruff of
hexagons
my wisteria
the quartz
cobwebs
& dice ^
hubris
or dice /
damask
lice
lice /
the dice
or the
leaves



SÉAMAS
CAIN :

spiritual
scruff &
spiritual
cider
when

the cicone
the hevior
& ossifrage
when

quarteroon
spirketting
dambonite

as osmosis

afterward
the cicone


[tape]:

the stings

prismatic
stings &

the osprey
stings &
osprey my
sorrow as

mackerel
break
quiet
cataract

parchment
tortoise
& wattles

parchment

wattles


SÉAMAS
CAIN :

stilt pine

pine stilt

pine cicala

the scrum

the cocard

& sorrel


[tape]:

rabble
carp
carp
twisted
shell

jennet
& skull
~ turn
skull
skull

logarithms
in cement
logarithms
evaporate
& rubber
my fire

but not
blackberry
blackbird


SÉAMAS
CAIN :

hucklebone
rubbacrock
my ossuary
the priscan
men the
coccolith
soriferous
men or my
whisket in
stinkwood
stinkwood