The Houston Literary Review is happy to have Rob Tyler and Cece Chapman featured for a second time.

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Tyler provides our readers another quirky piece called "Magic Hostess" and a very beautiful piece called "Unrecognizable Now."

Rob Tyler

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Tyler gives us a wonderfully philosophical video in "Unrecognizable Now," a.k.a "UNRec Now," an abbreviation which nicely (mis-)translates to "un-record now." Watching dump trucks dump scraped snow gives us practical insight into the process of being unveiled, something Heideggerian Anlichtung does not: an economy of surfaces.

 

This unveiling of the landscape has a cold and icy beauty. But this beauty does not lose itself in mysticism. Rather, it faces what is harsh, thrown like a note from a piano against asphalt and concrete. It is a dirge, funeral music for snowy veils.

 

Tyler also gives us a visceral humor in "Magic Hostess," a piece unrelated in subject matter to "Unrecognizable Now," but analogically, a like philosophical investigation into surfaces, the odd, juicy surfaces as revealed by can openers. 

         

More from Tyler can be seen on YouTube and Vimeo.

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Cece Chapman

 

Cece Chapman also returns as a special guest with her own page featuring a graphic story called "Mr. Ed" and a video called "The New York Times." 

 

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