I’ve been a redditor (don’t do it!) for awhile now. For a long time, I enjoyed the site for its endless cat pictures, silly memes, and sometimes-funny comment threads. About a year ago, I did a massive overhaul of my … Continue reading
I was really stuck on what to do this week without replicating prior poetic projects I’ve done in different contexts (book manipulation, book making, etc.), but then it came to me… literally. In the mail. My materials are self-evident: West … Continue reading
For this signment I kept thinking what the hardest thing to corral would’ve been. Blood? Large masses of bodies? Insects? The first is too messy. The second too surly. The third too unruly and creepycrawly. I remembered that the point … Continue reading
In response to our recent discussion about the materiality of things like: Our emails. Our email drafts. Our deleted emails. The words we type into Google search bars or Facebook status updates. Here are two news stories worth checking out, … Continue reading
Two things: As I mentioned in my post last week, I’m between houses at the moment. I actually just got approved for a new apartment today, though, so I’m almost finished with my career as a part-time vagabond. Still don’t … Continue reading
I decided to enact the signment this week, in a small way. I can empathize with the pressure many are feeling to make this writing matter. Haas reminds us that for Goody, Ong and Havelock, writing turns time into space. … Continue reading
Gilding in and of itself isn’t precious to me. When I was a faux finisher I, on more than one occasion, gilded an entire bathroom. It’s actually kind of gruelling work to gild a ceiling, and the cruel joke of … Continue reading
Michelle and I were considering writing in her old journals. Of which there are many. They are very important to her: every now and again she pulls them out to remind herself (I think) of before. To look at how … Continue reading
For this signment, I liked the idea of working on a surface that had already been through some layers of meaningful mediation. This envelope was sent to me this past summer by a friend of the family, a person with whom … Continue reading
Precious paper I did not have, so I opted for a photograph. Not an old photograph, not a photograph I don’t have the negative for, not even a photograph housing beloved faces. The photograph I chose is precious because it … Continue reading