she regarded it as a mooring, a checkpoint, some stable visual object that assured her that the world was still there; that this was life and not a dream.
Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison
Also, JV acquired …
A mooring
Category: language
AG2015_1020099 or what you can get
Poetry is the art of taking what you can get (AN)
the right flower for
What’s the right flower for the ignored-
with-good-reason, the uninvited? A hydrangea,
head wide as a cabbage; or the bull thistle
wild along the roads; or a dandelion
Etiquette, Judson Mitcham
The Department of Homeland Security said on Friday that it would revoke the temporary legal status of more than 530,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans welcomed into the US under a Biden-era sponsorship process, according to a notice posted to the Federal Register and signed by the homeland security chief Kristi Noem.
The order cuts short a two-year “parole” program – known as CHNV – under Joe Biden that allowed 532,000 people who had arrived in the US since October 2022 with financial sponsors to obtain two-year work permits to live and work in the US. Noem’s notice said they will lose their legal status on 24 April.
The Guardian, 032125
orchids and boutonnieres
Come out, come close.
Why hide? Why deceive?
You are me and I am you.
Why get mired in me’s and you’s?
We are light upon light—
and the glass light passes through.
Why muddy ourselves with a grudge?
Together, we are whole and complete.
[…]
There’s one spirit in countless bodies,
one oil in countless almonds,
one meaning in countless words
uttered by countless tongues.
Shatter the jugs. The water is one.
Steeped in union, the heart remembers
a world beyond words.
Come out, come close., Jalal al-Din Rumi
AG2024_1123094a or limitedness
The light gains edges and limbs; folds and opens.
Nobody has limitlessness
a universe of collision and drift
SH
Adrift, underground, invisible
Gordon Parks and Ralph Ellison: How a Man ‘Becomes Invisible’, John Edwin Mason, TIME, 2016.
““A Man Becomes Invisible,” which appeared in LIFE on Aug. 25, 1952, Parks interpreted Ellison’s recently published novel, Invisible Man, through images that were by turns surreal and nightmarish.”
Art Institute of Chicago, May 20–Aug 28, 2016.
Park McArthur. Contact M
The exhibition Park McArthur. Contact M brings together, for the first time, artworks made between the 2010s and 2020s. These artworks and the forms they take are guided by personal and social meanings of disability, delay, and dependency.
Co-organized by mumok in Vienna and Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, the exhibition is a collaboration between both institutions and will be presented simultaneously at both locations. Questions of simultaneous experience and access to art and culture shape this project’s format and purpose.
Curated by Matthias Michalka, mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien and Susanne Titz and Alke Heykes, Museum Abteiberg, Möchengladbach.
March 15, to September 7, 2025.
This audio guide is an artwork. This audio guide is an exhibition. It is titled
01_Contact_M_EN.mp3
Contact M and contains artworks made in the 2010s and 2020s by Park McArthur.
Contact M was recorded in German and English.
Some artworks are only exhibited here, in this audio guide. Some artworks
were on view from March to September, 2025 at the Museum Abteiberg in
Mönchengladbach, Germany and mumok in Vienna, Austria. Reading or listening
to Contact M keeps it open as an exhibition.
AG2025_1540969a or witnessing of all that is well
this soft, open witnessing of all that is well
The hand of politics is so visible from their vantage point that they don’t know how they could have missed it at first. It’s utterly manifest in every detail of the view
a planet contoured and landscaped by want
Samantha Harvey