under the load of severed emotions,
…to induce the reader to see in a way that is best for me to show.
The eye obeys the will of the kimok and is directed by it to that sequence
of moments which best brings out a kimok-phrase, the sequence that raises
and lowers denouement with the greatest brilliance and speed.
Systems of the Continuity of Moments
Example: we are readers in a line, our eyes trained to a constant syn-tactical
loop of "THEN:NOW:LATER", past present and future. Narrative time is constructed.
Sentences are judged and meaning created by the word that came before and
the word that might come next. The loop travels forward only, driven by
the story-cycle construct. Sentences read in one direction on the page.
Daily life is a series of un-ordered random chaotic moments. Our trained
minds construct false ordered stories from them. Kimoks: refuse to obey!!
The kimok page are pearls broken free from the necklace!!
Example: within a single moment we expect the word to illustrate the image,
and the image to return the favour. We judge the skill according to the
match and its even-ness. Word and image, they are foreign nationals. They
undermine and overflow, tunnel and claw each other in a distant embrace.
In our momentous instant; word, thought, deed, image travel their own tangents
and presentations. The kimok page is this moments only true presentation!!
The Most Inefficient, the Most Uneconomical Rendition
of a Moment is the Theatrical Rendition
The Kimok lives amongst these stunted continuity systems, prevalent in other
mediums. Comiks developed so far unquestioningly yoked to the story tradition
of panel after panel, scene upon scene of the atrophied theatre. Narrative
theatricality binds the kimok page to an ancient tradition. Pages that could
be expressed in instants! Pictures tied only to words, working double when
image and text could express new tangents of the same moment. The kimok-artist
yearns to give both picture and word their true freedom on the page, to
join both in the chaotic swirl of movement that is kimok life!
Under these two tyrannies the comik lives, waiting to be freed and become
true KIMOK!
