Cone 10 B-mix stoneware, with Purple haze, Reitz green, and Cranberry glazes. Fired at Ceramic League Miami, March 2023.
“form is not a thing but a relation” (LB); it is also a thing.
A ceramic
Category: art
Maya Rossana Cú Choc, Poesía De Lo Propio, 2005(?)
Nací mujer
predestinada
al llanto
desde siempre
bebí palabras
sumergidas en sueños
en mis dos países
hubo muros que
aún quiero derribar
-botar piedras de siglos
no es fácil
para cuatro niñas
de cinco años –
en mis dos países
aprendía a amar
a las de mi piel
de mi voz
de mi cuerpo
de mis lenguas
nunca encontré
mi camino
lo sigo buscando
nací mujer
nací sola
crecí sola
sigo
sola
bebí palabras sumergidas en sueños — I drank words submerged in dreams
en mis dos países hubo muros que aún quiero derribar — in my two countries there were walls that I still want to tear down
Poem via wp and 23 Bienal de Arte Paiz (13-30 July 2023, Francine Birbragher-Rozencwaig and Juan Canela, curators).
AG2023_1033826a or quetzal
Heterotopias, place that opens behind the surface, holds an over-there-ness, represent a “reservoir of imagination” (MF). Within the fold. A garden as a microcosmic world build out of the juxtaposition or arrangement of elements. Place with temporal shifts and/or fragments. A cruise ship. An airport.
Plate: Calurus resplendens
Accepted: Pharomachrus mocinno
Common: Resplendent Quetzal
AG2023_1033822a
L’imaginaire de mon lieu est relié à la réalité imaginable des lieux du monde, et tout inversement. L’archipel est cette réalité source, non pas unique, d’où sont sécrétés ces imaginaires : le schème de l’appartenance et de la relation, en même temps.
Glissant, Édouard, Philosophie de la Relation, Paris, Gallimard, 2009.
“the imaginary of my place is related to the imaginable reality in all places …”
Releted(?) : heterotopias–“In Of Other Spaces Foucault coined the term “heterotopias” to signify “all the other real sites that can be found within the culture” which “are simultaneously represented, contested, and inverted.” For Foucault, heterotopic spaces were first of all spaces of crisis, or transformative spaces …”
Shine your light for the world to see
January 19, 2023, Joey Bada$$ covers Yasiin Bey’s ‘UMI Says.’
Umi said shine your light on the world
Shine your light for the world to see
[…]
I want black people to be free, to be free, to be free
All my people to be free, to be free, to be free
All black people to be free, to be free, to be free
AG2023_1033596a or reach
Reach passed the “imposed conditions of apartness” (IF)
macandal
Museum MMK für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
10 February 2023 – 15 October 2023
Negations of accumulation manifested in theft, fugitivity, praise meetings, and plots.[53] Stealing the crops, eating the livestock, and refusing to work diminished the output of the plantation.[54] The formation of fugitive communities emptied the plantation of its value.[55] Sharing information evaded supervisory control.[56] Coordinated poisonings of masters and overseers instilled fear of the slave population.[57] Arson destroyed sugar mills, masters’ houses, and entire fields, inflicting property damage and halting production.[58] These black negations are unwritten losses. They are neither failed nor successful. Their impact is incalculable. They operate beyond the rubrics of value and production. Rather they were grounded in “the shared sense of obligation to preserve the collective being, the ontological totality” of blackness.[59]
Cameron Rowland: Amt 45 i
Maxwell Graham / Essex Street. Image via C&.
