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Category: landscape

  • Travel is akin to travail

    travel = travail. Middle English travelen, alteration of travailen, to toil, from Old French travailler; see TRAVAIL. (ahdictionary)

    A case against a type of tourism. (New Yorker)

    “thy … argument
    Deserves the travail of a worthier pen” (WS)

    Everyday Travails.

  • AG2023_1066646a or thin and indiscernible

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    Flowing, thin, and indiscernible

    Wandering Through Landscapes curated by Hartvest Project (Carola Bravo) and Adriana Meneses.

    Elisa Benedetti, Andrés Cabrera-García, Jefreid Lotti, César Rey, Clara Toro, Gustavo Acosta, and Adler Guerrier

    An exhibit that invites you to embark on a captivating journey through the contrasting and different ways to see our landscapes. We delve into the essence of distinct yet interconnected worlds: the dynamic urban landscapes that pulse with vibrant energy and the serene rural expanses that breathe tranquility. South Florida’s unique blend of tropical allure and cosmopolitan life is a melting pot of diverse cultures. Through this exhibition, we aim to capture different visions, shedding light on the captivating interplay between those visions.

    Adriana Meneses

    September 10 through November 5, 2023. At Pinecrest Gardens, 11000 Red Rd, Pinecrest, FL, 33156.

  • AG2023_1066644a barely holds

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    Some faint impressions barely held by this arrangement.

    “… some of the fragments of the afternoon might be collected, and I concentrated my attention with careful subtlety to this end” – Eliot

  • AG2022_2110775a or what we value

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    What must be valued–spaces where … thought, sunshine, flowers, intangibles, necessities, time, freedom … are held.

    “What must be valued
    I’m learning,

    in clarity and in error,
    are spaces

    where
    feelings are held.

    Here—in a poem?
    And elsewhere”

    – Jenny Johnson, Spaces

    “Thought, sunshine, flowers: they wanted intangible as well as tangible goods, pleasures as well as necessities, and the time to pursue them, the time to have an inner life and freedom to roam the outer world.” (Solnit, Orwell’s Roses)

  • Take a bit of work

    Work by Charlotte Day Wilson via Euphoria.

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    EW+AG2018_LAND12x20 or and you’ll have to wait a million years to see me again (After Synecdoche)

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    indeterminacy, not fixed, not precise, not known.

  • A place to stand and stare; Aubade East–

    Untitled (A place to stand and stare; Aubade East–Today’s the day, I can taste it / This morning there ain’t nothing I can’t do)

    Untitled (A place to stand and stare; Aubade East–then play the rest of the day / as it comes see where it goes / feeling good / feeling good)

    Aubade: East by Rita Dove

    Harlem, a.m.

    Today’s the day, I can taste it.

    Got my gray sweats pouting in a breeze

    so soft, I feel like I’m still wrapped for sleeping

    as I head uptown in my undercover power-suit,

    bitch sunlight fingering the spaced-out tenements.

    This morning there ain’t nothing I can’t do.

    This is my territory, I know all of it—

    ten long blocks flanked by mighty water.

    Walking any Avenue is like riding

    a cosmic surfboard on the biggest wave

    of the goddam century, the East River

    twerking her bedazzled behind

    while sky spills coin like a luck-crazed

    Vegas granny flush at the slots. Today

    I’m gonna make out like a bandit myself:

    hook up with my buds to drop

    a few shots on the courts, ogle the ladies,

    then play the rest of the day

    as it comes                see where it goes

    feeling good

    feeling good

    somewhere over the Hudson

    the sun                      heading home

    via The Georgia Review, Spring 2016 and Playlist for the Apocalypse: Poems.

  • A moment that can hardly be improved

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    “And if a glass of ice tea and an anthology
    of seventeen century devotional poetry
    with a dark blue cover are available,
    then the picture can hardly be improved

    All I wanted was to be a pea of being
    at rest inside the pod of time”

    -Billy Collins, The Moment