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How to Edit Your Artist Statement
Write down as much as you can. Write everything down. That means everything. It doesn’t need to make sense. And that thing you don’t know how to say? Just write it down. There’s always words, even for...
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L’informe / Formless
A dictionary begins when it no longer gives the meaning of words, but their tasks. Thus formless is not only an adjective having a given meaning, but a term that serves to bring things down in the...
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In defense of photography
Art should disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed I don’t remember where or when I first read that aphorism – a search on the internet reveals a multitude of sources and derivations –...
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a secular drive
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: Higgs Boson Blues Can’t remember anything at all Flamed trees lie in the streets Can’t remember anything at all But I’m driving my car down to Geneva
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Water drops are no longer cloud Fruits and leaves are not tree Petals are not rose Tears are not calm sea Everything that comes off teaches us to fall . Gotas de agua ya no son nube Frutos y hojas no...
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How to Use a Storm
Where did the storm come from? No warning on the forecast and no warning wind. We’d put off putting the storm windows on and insulating the attic when bang, rain on glass, and no we can’t name the...
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demands
In periods of social crisis, photography as art can seem an inhuman escape. It is so often apparently distant from the specific catastrophes in the day’s news. Think of Stieglitz making, during the...
View Articlethe graces of traces
There were times when I was a ghost, a shambling shell of remorse and regret, a shirking shadow of recitation and recrimination, a shabby shrouded shoeless shrimp of resignation and reparation. Times...
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technicalities
How do I know that enjoying life is not a delusion? How do I know that in hating death we are not like people who got lost in early childhood and do not know the way home? Lady Li was the child of a...
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failure of romance
i quit every other day and the other days i don’t even bother. i should’ve been a poet or a painter, or even smarter, taken those automotive repair classes in high school or got a good job at the...
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not everything is here for you
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