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GOLDILOCKS
Sometimes I get asked why I make art. I think I’ll start quoting this poem: “I’m trying to get Goldilocks to go home.” I’m not sure what it means, but it feels right.
Did you know in the original Story Of The Three Bears it wasn’t a little girl, but a nasty old woman who enters the Bear residence?
An old hairy woman (who is described at various points in the story as impudent, bad, foul-mouthed, ugly, dirty and a vagrant deserving of a stint in the House of Correction) discovers the bears’ dwelling. After assuring herself no one is about, she enters the house. The old woman eats the Wee Bear’s porridge, then settles into his chair and breaks it. Prowling about, she finds the bear’s beds and falls asleep in Wee Bear’s bed. The climax of the tale is reached when the bears return. Wee Bear finds the old woman in his bed and cries, “Somebody has been lying in my bed,—and here she is!” The old woman starts up, jumps from the window, and is never seen again.
Yeah, that’s what it’s like to create sometimes. There’s a foul-mouthed, dirty old woman up in my brain, and she has to eat all my soup, break my chair, and dirty my bed until I can catch her and throw her out the window.
HOROSCOPES
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5 YEARS OF BLACKING OUT
I made my first blackout poem five years ago. What a ride.
To celebrate, I thought I’d post 10 of my favorite poems from 2009-2010. (Minus everything in Newspaper Blackout — you can also browse the “Greatest Hits” from 2006-2008)
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“Company,” 2009
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“A Young Man In Finance,” 2009
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“Umbrella,” 2009
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“Home Depot,” 2009
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“The Same Swords,” 2009
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“So Many Places,” 2009
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“Make a Mess of Me,” 2010
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“His Beard,” 2010
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“Open Road,” 2010
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“What Is Marriage,” 2010
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TELEPORTAL READINGS 2.1
Experiment with Pano on iPhone + hand drawing — see it much bigger!
I doodled the most recent Teleportal Reading for the folks at Electric Literature.
Teleportal Readings is a multi-media reading series in Austin, TX, which really shakes up the reading. Their most recent event featured Jennifer Egan and Maira Kalman reading live, with a video reading by Doug Dorst, as well as an EL Single Sentence Animation by Joanna Neborsky, and synthy sounds from Silent Diane.
It was so great to meet Maira in person. Her work is amazing.
Funny note: it was so dark where I was drawing that I didn’t notice I was drawing with a red Sharpie! Had to fix in Photoshop after I scanned them.
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