dear readers, mostly, i’m posting because i want to share something with you. i want to bring you the most important page of my thesis. honestly, i just want to share it. but i also think it will get me somewhere in this conversation i began last week regarding creative practice and its relation to … Continue reading »
readers! hello! it is with delight that i write my first studiola post from a tiny couch under a loft bed in my studio-attached-to-a-garage in san diego (no wind sounds in the backyard palm fronds, but the crickets are doing their thing). i am no stranger to wordpress (currently up to 1,267 posts over at … Continue reading »
I’m proud to introduce Franciszka Voeltz, May’s curator. I met f.v. during the 2012 Nebraskan drought, during which we dug holes, shot bb guns, pondered ferociously, and laughed, usually with a large glass jug of limeade and a family of flies in tow. I met Franciszka at the Art Farm. Let the fragments determine the … Continue reading »
Here’s my food post: I eat in the night. This used to be an occasional thing, but I’ve come to realize it’s every night, now. I get up around 2:30 or 3 a.m. to pee, like an elderly person, every single night. And almost every single night, on my way back to bed, I HAVE … Continue reading »
Today, I tried to write something about Boston. I had so much trouble figuring out what I wanted to say. I sat at my kitchen table for most of the morning, working it out. I got stuck. I took a break and went on a run. I’m into the idea of long-distance tributes and putting … Continue reading »
Today, more on those research papers mentioned on Thursday. Please forgive me for using the Studiola to air some of the observations I’ve had in the past three years that might not make it into the book. I want to show the seams of the work I’ve been doing in the book itself – not … Continue reading »
The police have been generous. I’ve been writing and researching my book for about three years now. I’ve been doing research from the start, but my graduate advisor, the very kind and scarily smart Amy Benson, recently pointed out that I could have written this book without it. It took me a day or so … Continue reading »
