March 30, 2024

Artist*

\ är′tĭst \

Definition

(noun):
1. a person who co-creates and communicates intentional, reflexive experiences with perspective.
2. a person who interacts with and processes the world primarily through aesthetic experiences, i.e. art.

*An entry from A DIY Healing Dictionary of Intrapersonal, Interpersonal, and Social Being. The dictionary is a work in progress and part of the larger DIY Ph.D. - Prefiguring Learning for the Ecocene performance.

March 30, 2024

Art*

(noun): An intentional, reflexive experience with perspective.

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March 10, 2024

song

warm, inviting, kind
and yet

hiding
probing
interrogating while
observing
in front of and behind
that invisible two-way
mirror…

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March 10, 2024

it was an absolute delight to know you.

fear
hesitancy
avoidance...
yours,
leading to mine, and
my undoing.

i
am
---...

without words

i am
---...

nope, no words

weight on my chest
tightness.
fire
submerged.

i am
---...

at a loss.

March 9, 2024

don’t you need to leave by 2pm?

such an innocent question.

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March 7, 2024

the anxiety tango.

dancing near and
toward each
other,
holding still,
nearer,
holding,
nearer yet…
hoping
the other does
not back away.
both wondering
what patterns we may be repeating,

will this person accept me will they treat me as well as I’ll treat them will they treat me as well as i deserve will we enjoy each other’s company will they run away…

March 1, 2024

Pop!

the tea is
warm
poured
Bubble!
one
Bubbles!
two, three, four
larger
smaller
swirl
swirl
swirling
*gasp*!

Pop!

February 4, 2024

Freedom

\ frē′dəm \

(noun): the capacity to imagine how things might be elsewise, with the flexible support to try, and the hope of possibilities.

(adverb) freeing: the state of imagining possibilities; relieved of the restraints of the singular, opened to the multitudes of potentialities.

(verb) to free: 1. to imagine, illuminate, share, and explore potentialities. 2. to flexibly support, facilitate, or otherwise encourage exploring potentialities.

Often conflated with related concepts of autonomy and agency. Is social as much as personal.

*An entry from A DIY Healing Dictionary of Intrapersonal, Interpersonal, and Social Being. The dictionary is a work in progress and part of the larger DIY Ph.D. – Prefiguring Learning for the Ecocene performance.

February 4, 2024

21 questions

  1. How well do you know yourself?
  2. What are your core needs?
  3. Do you enjoy being by yourself as much as with others?
  4. What pattern(s) might I be repeating?
  5. What happens when you don't get your way?
  6. How do you handle it?
  7. What is your joy?
  8. How do you relate to the world?
  9. Process it?
  10. And interface?
  11. What would break your heart?
  12. How does someone learn about you?
  13. get to know you?
  14. Connect with you?
  15. Deeply?
  16. What do you like to talk about?
  17. How do you experience the world?
  18. What is foreplay for you?
  19. What role does conversation play in your life?
  20. How deeply do you think?
  21. Feel?
  22. How critically do you think?
  23. Feel?
  24. How do you share of yourself?
  25. Do you? (share of yourself?)
  26. How many more questions can I get away with?
  27. How many more questions until I feel like I know you?
  28. How many more questions until I feel like you know me?
  29. How many more questions until I know myself?

January 25, 2023

Time. Money. Resources. Pick (n)one.

I have struggled most as an artist and parent. Living on a single income, with twice the expenses, limits what I can do and where. I can only travel for research if the boy can come along, and has something to occupy him. The same goes for residencies. And the cost of even occasional childcare is prohibitive, let alone regular care. Travel and compartmentalization is fragmentation, causing sanity, time, and financial problems. Again, exponentially even more so with a learning difference. This is in part why my work rejects the artificial division of life, work, family, and environment. And why my practice is integrated, so I can survive and work. Not just survive, thrive. I know, just by the demographics of people who are parents, and people with disabilities, that I am not the only one.

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