The takes — 35 answers / 15 instructions

Thirty-fiveanswers

One sentence, answered thirty-five times. No two alike, no one different.

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Instruction 01 of 15

Close together atop a granite ridge

Sixteen of the thirty-five answer this one line. One sentence wrote half the series.

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Take 09R09
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Take 10R10
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Take 11R11
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No two alike

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Instruction 12 of 15

The camera hones in on the models as they draw close

There was no camera. The style was the photographer's own, fifteen years earlier.

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Nobody looks back

In none of the thirty-five does anyone look at you. The gaze goes to the horizon, to each other, or is closed.

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SIDE BY SIDE — the last answer, and the sentence is still open

The last answer, and the sentence is still open

There wasno camera

Every instruction stages one — the low angle, the vantage, the honing-in. Not one of them was ever mounted, and the ridge is precise about everything except where it is.