You've got to dig to dig it, you dig?
[…]
Before the dawning
Of my life;
I was the river
Forever winding
To purple dreaming,
I was the glowing
Of youthful Springtime,
I was the singing
Of golden songbirds,—
[…]
I was the vision
Of youthful striving,
I was the summer,
I was the autumn,
I was the All-time—
I was love.
Revery, Fenton Johnson
“The quality of the gift depends on the sincerity of the giver.” (Ann Patchett)
In the new place which will be also the old place we will save useful things neatly, with backups, but not too many, not too much. Everyone will train in some archives, teaching methods & learning our shared reverence for research which is reverence for knowledge which is reverence for community which is reverence for being which is reverence for this earth & all universes. We will keep kitchen archives & garden archives & comms archives & decisions archives & process archives & experiment archives & we will consult these archives when we need background or inspiration or instruction, or for pleasure, the great pleasure of the archive, the great archive of pleasure; we will call this art, how we spend our days & nights.
Position Paper #53: National Archivist, Andrea Lawlor.
“I care. I care about it all.
It takes too much energy not to care… The why of why we are here is an intrigue for adolescents; The how is what must command the living. Which is why I have lately become an insurgent again.”
-from Lorraine Hanshury’s play, The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window (1965)
via Corita Kent (1918-1986), highly prized, 1967. Seen at Marciano Art Foundation.
Los Angeles.
Do Ho Suh: Jagyeong Hall, Gyeongbok Palace.
Various ceramics on a table.
Cynara cardunculus, a large perennial thistle, sighted on Mount Washington.
de Young.
Zhan Wang, Artificial Rock, 2005.
Turell.
Agnes Pelton, Challenge, 1940.
Diebenkorn, Seawall, 1957.
Purvis Young, Angels and Their Horses 1985.
Helen Frankenthaler, Crusades, 1976.
David Drake, “Catination” Storage Jar, 1836.
“[…] I feel myself sufficiently strong to defy the enemy.”
via Roediger
Cynara cardunculus wasn’t sighted.
Dramatic sky.
Various arrangements–floral, lush, precise, found, precarious, disputed, adjustable, stable,
Abundance.
SFMOMA.
“To fling my arms wide
In the face of the sun,
Dance! Whirl! Whirl!”
Dream Variations, Langston Hughes (Dawoud Bey)
Braque
Sol Lewitt’s Wall Drawings
Agnes Martin
Lois Mailou Jones
Georgia O’Keefe, Black Place I, 1944
Takako Yamaguchi
Nairy Baghramian
Francis Firth, The statues on the plain, Thebes, 1858
Sunny. Clear.
Steep incline.
Survival
Survival pending
liberation
revolution
or begin again
“Can it be politics without foregrounding dissonance?”
“All sexual experiment in this film has transformative—animating, nauseating, life-threatening—consequences for the participants, whose drama is to want it all: but the task of le mariage pop is to invent an ordinariness for it. In another register we might call that politics.”
via Berlant reading of Last Tango in Paris, directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, 1972.
Soft Occupation at Sobremesa. A show organized by Juan Pablo Garza.
Great view.
Blackberries.
Huevos rancheros.
Oops.
Makeout Room.
Cumbia.
48.