Name: ocean dot jpeg
Duration: P00H02M51S
Description: In a videogame, the textures of objects are images that are mapped on their surfaces. But when you get the chance to look at something huge like the ocean, you can see that it's the same image, tiled to fill the space. I always found that uniquely frustrating, to look out over what should be an infinitely unique expanse and find that its just one square over and over.

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from Pour People (In a Hot, Hot Desert) by bird furniture

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In a videogame, the textures of objects are images that are mapped on their surfaces. But when you get the chance to look at something huge like the ocean, you can see that it's the same image, tiled to fill the space. I always found that uniquely frustrating, to look out over what should be an infinitely unique expanse and find that its just one square over and over.

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I know I am not supposed to look at video pieces of the water
I can't turn away before it unloads
I can't turn away until it unrolls behind me

Stretch to the corner of repetition
Pixels make made-up skin but it isn't wide enough to say we're really here

The tiles break up to meet the rocks and spill out into their bounding box
It takes six squares to cover every side and sixty more to go from left to right around me

Stare me down at low resolution
Where do you go once you've found the ocean?
Save my memory so I don't drop a frame

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from Pour People (In a Hot, Hot Desert), released April 18, 2021

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bird furniture is a Philadelphia-based DIY alt art folk fi band

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