checking in
I haven't been writing here (or any place) much in the last few weeks.
The world outside of the screen was moving and pulling more.
I had that familiar feeling of having reached the end of some really nice things - and am still feeling out what comes next. These things were projects or meetings with artists and friends, doing really good things. They had all been developing for a while, and suddenly there was a time of busy excitement and doing. It would be nice if that was enough, to have experienced that at all, but I sure miss it.
One of the things was a group exhibition with a local space. I printed a stack of loose pages from a collection of poems and drawings I'd been working on. Visitors were invited to take a page or as many pages as they liked. It's documented and available to download here:
https://ghostglyph.itch.io/poems-collected
Since the exhibition closed I've retrieved the remaining pages and assembled a couple of copies of the book. If you've happened to click to this gemlog and would like one of the copies, I'd love to post some out. Email me ghostglyph@gmail.com and let me know.
Laurie Anderson's series of lectures Spending the War Without You wrapped up yesterday. It has been such a wonderful companion over this last year. The punctuation of these lectures, thoughts and digressions across the months has given things shape. I think it was in the first of the lectures that Laurie described the concept of the Jewel Tree and I finally implemented a tiny tool to help me think about my own. I've posted the link below - it's on Glitch, so easy enough to remix/adapt if it's useful to you.
Lecture playlist on Youtube:
Jewel Deck
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