February 2011
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– For me a poem often begins as a constellation of words coursing through my head like little electric shocks. This often happens when I’m in great pain or pleasure, doing laps in a pool, or in the bardo between sleeping and waking. I don’t know why. The words feel like irritants in the...
January 2011
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– We as a culture have lost the memory of the purpose of art, and the stakes have shifted from art’s potential to shape the world we live in to the fetishization of shallowness and cooperation. We have experienced a big bang in the field of art wherein everything means something and at the same...
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– At a job interview at a university, three men sitting across from me at a table. On my CV it says that I am currently working on a book about the color blue. I have been saying this for years without writing a word. It is, perhaps, my way of making my life feel “in progress” rather than...
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– Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions. (Rainer Maria Rilke)
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– I can’t sleep. There is a woman stuck between my eyelids. I would tell her to get out if I could. But there is a woman stuck in my throat. (Eduardo Galeano)
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hanganail asked: Thanks for introducing Leslie Hewitt's work.
There's a kind of genuine investigation that is refreshing.
There's a kind of genuine investigation that is refreshing.
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– Every technology is an expression of human will. Through our tools, we seek to expand our power and control over our circumstances - over nature, over time and distance, over one another.
from The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr)
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