Category: landscape

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I received a Miami Individual Artists Grant. “With the support of the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners.”

After a competitive process involving a review panel and approval by the Miami-Dade County Cultural Affairs Council on March 20, 2024 and the Miami-Dade County Board of County Commissioners and Mayor, the County awards to the Artist one non-matching $3,000 Miami Individual Artists Grant (“Grant”). This Grant is awarded solely on the basis of the Grant Application (“Application”) submitted by the Artist, which is incorporated by reference into this Agreement, and in consideration for the Artist’s agreement to abide by the following terms and considerations set forth in this Agreement.
This Grant is to be used by the Artist according to their needs, pursuant to the activities described by
the Artist in the Application. Funding of the Grant is paid by the Miami-Dade County Department of
Cultural Affairs, through its Miami Individual Artists (MIA) Grants Program, with the support of the Miami-Dade County Mayor, the Board of County Commissioners, and the Cultural Affairs Council. This Agreement shall be in effect during the grant period of October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2024.

they often become almost extreme in their non-spectacularity, in their function not to picture the event, but rather display the everyday structures behind them.

Bruno Serralongue according to Joanna Warsza, Textwork.

Weathering, and other ways to survive

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The specificity of place and terms that do the work of aggregation like ‘landscape’ and ‘garden’ and ‘yard’ give way to radical individualization. Here, we spy flowers as if awakened protagonists, independent of their role in a ‘scenic’ and ‘idyllic’ place. In the dark, they are only themselves.

Leslie M. Wilson, Weathering, and other ways to survive. (Marisa Newman Projects)
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AG2024_1100126a or increased amount of pleasure

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Merve Emre, in the New Yorker, on Freud’s ideas through many biographies.

An enthusiastic popularizer of his ideas, he imagined his audience as anyone who had not managed to turn “his wishful phantasies into reality”—not titans of industry or artists but ordinary people who longed for more than what they had. The act of attending to their substitutions—of fantasizing—provided a daily experience of creativity, surprise, humor, and interpretive activity. One needed to have only the “courage and determination,” Freud urged, to heed the minor poetry of the unconscious.

[…]

The greatest testament to the human sense of “oneness” is civilization itself, man’s “mastery over space and time” in the form of shared aesthetic and political projects—beauty, order, religion, nationhood.

Yet civilization had not “increased the amount of pleasure” that men could “expect from life.”

It’s going to hurt for a while.
It’s going to have to.

[…]

It’s going to be hard
to end soon.

It’s going to wipe out
your entire wildlife.

It’s going to be remembered fondly, your heart
unable to keep its hands to itself.

[…]

It’s going to make your metaphors make you,
even if you don’t want to.

[…]

It’s going to cost you.

This Living, Amber Tamblyn in newyorker

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Green. Varieties. Shades of. A name. A new deal. A proposal.

chartreuse buds beading above moss
dappled shamrocks
fragrant healing of sage, laurel,
mint, basil, thyme, rosemary, myrtle
amid the tall wonders of juniper
pine, olive, pear
even the meeting of sea and river—
the sky, an intermingling of viridian and chetwode horizons, 
and cerulean clarity—
offers its green seafoam, 
its seaweed pats, 
the crocodile at the edge of a freshwater marsh
its teeth open gritted in green
against the backdrop of hunter rainforest
dripping in green

making life on a palette, Raina J. León