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  • the right flower for

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    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

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    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

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    The light gains edges and limbs; folds and opens.

    Nobody has limitlessness

    a universe of collision and drift

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  • Adrift, underground, invisible

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    Ralph Ellison - Invisible Man (1953, Signet Double Volume #D1030, cover art by James Avati)
    Ralph Ellison – Invisible Man (1953, Signet Double Volume #D1030, cover art by James Avati)

    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
    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.

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  • AG2025_1540969a or witnessing of all that is well

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    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

  • might be allowed

    “The draft proposal also included an “orange” list of 10 countries for which travel would be restricted but not cut off. In those cases, affluent business travelers might be allowed to enter, but not people traveling on immigrant or tourist visas.

    Citizens on that list would also be subjected to mandatory in-person interviews in order to receive a visa. It included Belarus, Eritrea, Haiti, Laos, Myanmar, Pakistan, Russia, Sierra Leone, South Sudan and Turkmenistan.” nytimes.

    It’s all I have to bring today—
    This, and my heart beside—
    This, and my heart, and all the fields—
    And all the meadows wide—
    Be sure you count—should I forget
    Some one the sum could tell—
    This, and my heart, and all the Bees
    Which in the Clover dwell.

    Emily Dickinson

  • It’s not nothing

    It’s not peripheral and it’s not the centre; it’s not everything and it’s not nothing

    Orbital, Samantha Harvey

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