One Year Contract: Make a thing a day for one year
I will produce at least one creative work every day, from now until Sept. 9, 2009. Not all will be posted here on a daily basis (some will be here), but all posted works will be placed in this category.
Nature As A Text: Complexity theory and the Modernist eye in Maggie Leininger's "Text/ile"
This quarter’s The Present Group project includes a piece I wrote about the current work of Maggie Leininger, a textile artist in Illinois.
“A white plastic box inscribed with a colorful legend, anonymously medical or scientific in origin, opens to reveal a woven textile, folded upon itself, black and white threads that merge into a shifting pattern of gray rectangles. Unrolled and displayed vertically, the swatch immediately brings to mind the reductive shapes and optical experimentation of Modernist abstraction…” Read Nature As A Text…
Lexicon: Problematic Afternoon
The Problematic Afternoon is the sort of mental minefield peculiar to artists, writers, freelancers, grad students and other “self-employed” types. The Problematic Afternoon represents the time of day where morning’s promise has finally and completely worn off, all talent seems squandered, and it has somehow become impossible to produce any kind of quality work. This is where frustrated plans turn into a larger existential anxiety over your choice of career and life in general.
Dual Dullnesses
On certain days caffeine would churn brightly in his mind, shoving light into unseen corners, moving shit around. The evenings left him blank like this, vaguely cursing the extra wasted heartbeats, wishing for a magazine subscription that covered these types of feelings. The days came anyway, always new, always worn out by afternoon.
Rehearsal of anecdotes
Laughing in the back seat of the car, as the thing moves toward the thing, later followed by sirens. One thing shows the trajectory of the other through sound. (We are leaving).
Eyes on the toilet stall.
Introduction
There are few things I can say with any certainty. None of them are presented in this book.
Afternoon
“How many days have you lived? How many more do you expect to? Of the ones you have lived, which were most fulfilling? What made you happiest when you were happiest?”
