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  • Under Blue

    Sam Gilliam

    Peter Schjeldahl on Gilliam’s Formalism, 2020.

    Roundtable at Pace Gallery – Hickey, Martin, and Moten, via Zoom, 2020.

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  • habit assiduously maintained

    Untitled-A place to stand and stare, recalling tunes of ballads in a minor key iii
    Untitled-A place to stand and stare, recalling tunes of ballads in a minor key iii

    “Imagination, too, is old habit, assiduously maintained despite consequences.” EG

    Kimberly Bradley.

    Cathreine Cattaruzza. Depuis 1992, elle poursuit un travail photographique sur Beyrouth. Fb video (at the Lebanese Pavilion-Venice Architecture 2018).

  • AG2024_1134017a or red flows and veils

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    Untitled (Red flows and veils, garden syntactic arrangements)

    “Levi treasured the urban the same way previous generations worshipped the pastoral; if he could have written an ode he would have.” ZS

  • AG2024_1134015a or it shone beneficence

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    “It shone beneficence in thin rods of Renaissance light, thrusting through a landscaped cloud that seemed designed for this purpose.”
    Zadie Smith, On Beauty

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    Janet Flanner profiles Matisse in New Yorker, 1951.

  • AG2024_1133944b or spends all day, every day, insisting

    Some people say the devil is beating
    his wife. Some people say the devil
    is pawing his wife. Some people say
    the devil is doubling down on an overall
    attitude of entitlement toward
    the body of his wife. Some people
    say the devil won’t need to be sorry,
    as the devil believes that nothing
    comes after this life. Some people say
    that in spite of the devil’s public,
    long-standing, and meticulously
    logged disdain for the health
    and wholeness of his wife, the devil
    spends all day, every day, insisting
    grandly and gleefully on his general
    pro-woman ethos, that the devil truly
    considers himself to be an unswayed
    crusader: effortlessly magnetic,
    scrupulous, gracious, and, in spite of
    the devil’s several advanced degrees,
    a luminous autodidact. Some people
    say calm down; this is commonplace.
    Some people say calm down;
    this is very rare. Some people say
    the sun is washing her face. Some
    people say in Hell, they’re having a fair.

    Sunshower, Natalie Shapero

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    View of artworks and planter at Surfcomber Hotel (111524)

    Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, on The Daily, discusses his diagnosis and how to chart a path back to power for National Democratic Party. He is correct in his analysis.

  • A web of loss

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    View of Surfcomber Hotel

    Gauzy film between
    evergreens is a web

    of loss. Get closer. Reach
    to touch the shimmering

    gossamer and your finger
    pushes through. Remember

    filling that space with desire?
    Someone else might grieve

    the spider who abandoned
    this home; others grow anxious

    waiting for a deer’s walk
    to wreck it. But you—

    you grieve the net of thought
    spun inside your own womb:

    intricate and glossy and strong.

    Miscarriage, Christine Stewart-Nun?ez

    In the quiet, Vera could hear its sharp puffs of breath—low and fast—a complete and utter confusion. A denial. The eyes like blank boxes, but there, in their depths, a sense of something moving. A frantic dancing. Erratic. Vera felt her heart pumping awkwardly, palpitating. “Please wait,” Vera whispered.

    And then it died. Just like that, she felt it go. Something horrible and also strangely thrilling in it.

    Roughage, India Ennenga (Verso)