Dear friends, Thank you so much for reading my blog over the years. I just wanted to let you know that I will be transitioning to Substack over the next few months, and have already posted a couple of pieces there: https://marginalamericannotes.substack.com/ If you’ve enjoyed what you’ve been reading on this blog, I hope youContinue reading “SOME NEWS”
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from a draft of a work in progress titled “SMALL”
Two filmmakers are on stage. I mean two women. I mean two people, I mean I. Joanna Hogg and Kelly Reichardt are on stage with Dennis Lim. Small, deriving from the Latin word for “bad” and the Greek for “goat” : comparatively small in size : minor in rank or ability : GENTLE, SOFT Continue reading “from a draft of a work in progress titled “SMALL””
‘Letter of Resignation’
The title of the series indicates a single letter the many violent scribblings-out a roughly 10 x 10 inch square leaving a large amount of empty space This is an abstraction of writing writing detached from its usual communicative function in the violent, agitated movement of pencil on paper emotions beyond words All writing asContinue reading “‘Letter of Resignation’”
Mieke Reading (after Hopkins)
Drops of rain on rails. Screws of brooks and twines. Lobes of trees. Lightly hinged over this desk. Eyelashes over pencil marking lines and copying out. Coping with not writing now through reading. Pulling out words like teeth or hair or biting off one’s nails unconsciously for spite. Incorporating symbols written sounding. Trying out. SpillingContinue reading “Mieke Reading (after Hopkins)”
from my notebook (11.16.15)
Notes taken from his readings sometimes hand-written scraps sometimes carefully typed out compilations color charts brochures graphite, ink, pastel, and chalk wood or fabricated boards burlap, paper, canvas kinds of panels cardboard or some walls some photos (“snapshots”) and or on some drawings He realized that color was, in and of itself, the subject.
A brief word on my upcoming course, THE ARTIST IS A WOMAN
I’d been thinking a lot about this course, partly inspired by reading Rachel Cusk’s latest novel, Parade, a book that narrates the changing position of the female artist in a male dominated world, a novel that also meditates, albeit implicitly, on femaleness itself, and that recognizes that femaleness may also be embodied in a man,Continue reading “A brief word on my upcoming course, THE ARTIST IS A WOMAN”
MOROCCO
And it was like this. I didn’t know what it was but I knew that whatever it was was something that I liked and that it would continue to go on even after I stopped liking it. And something else was coming on that seemed to intrude upon the mood but didn’t intrude upon theContinue reading “MOROCCO”
Georg Herold
Nonsense Herold and a game of art. Irony that would make him ‘I’ coquette. And object-laden tableaux without referring to them explicitly. To live with absurdity. The Oxford English Dictionary is a figure of speech. To celebrate an obvious and amusing resemblance. Herold eschews the kind of systematic irony. A glancing at his lath and battens stacked.Continue reading “Georg Herold”
A New Practice of Weather
In like manner it gives the most concise presentation. Only the lines covered by the record. The recorder exposed at the station. The rhythms of the voice resounding. To collect suitable information. It means we take the thick with the thin. Tolls the knell of parting day. The warm precincts diagram. The table overleaf presidingContinue reading “A New Practice of Weather”
Alix’s Pictures
A woman is showing a boy her photographs. They are odd in that in all of them something is always missing. In one there is a man looking at the viewer. He is naked shoulders and head and arms and nothing else. The rest is just a blur. She tells the boy that the manContinue reading “Alix’s Pictures”
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