Saturday, October 10, 2009
#25: make a video of someone dancing
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Assignment #66 - Make a Field Guide to Your Yard
1)Brick implies the ocean
2)There were barbecues at one point, I'm pretty sure
3)This one reminds me of grade 7 birthday parties and of paying attention
4)Plant with arms wide open, and dancing
5)The many hands of an insect, disguised
6)Two lighters in embrace
7)Bottle cap implies hockey games
8)Leaf considers it's mortality
Monday, October 5, 2009
Learning to Love You More
69. Climb to the top of a tree and take a picture of the view.
66. Make a field guide to your yard.
65. Perform the phone call someone else wished they could have.
63. Make an encouraging banner.
62. Make an educational public plaque.
61. Describe your ideal government.
60. Write a press release about an everyday event.
59. Interview someone who has experienced war.
58. Record the sound that is keeping you awake.
57. Lipsync to shy neighbor's Garth Brooks cover.
56. Make a portrait of your friend's desires.
55. Photograph a significant outfit.
53. Give advice to yourself in the past.
52. Write the phone call you wish you could have.
51. Describe what to do with your body when you die.
50. Take a flash photo under your bed.
49. Draw a picture of your friend's friend.
47. Re-enact a scene from a movie that made someone else cry.
46. Draw Raymond Carver's Cathedral.
45. Reread your favorite book from fifth grade.
44. Make a "LTLYM assignment".
43. Make an exhibition of the art in your parent's house.
42. List five events from 1984.
39. Take a picture of your parents kissing.
38. Act out someone else's argument.
37. Write down a recent argument.
36. Grow a garden in an unexpected spot.
35. Ask your family to describe what you do.
34. Make a protest sign and protest.
32. Draw a scene from a movie that made you cry.
31. Spend time with a dying person.
30. Take a picture of strangers holding hands.
29. Make an audio recording of a choir.
27. Take a picture of the sun.
26. Design an article of clothing for Mona to crochet.
25. Make a video of someone dancing.
24. Cover the song "Don't Dream It's Over".
22. Recreate a scene from Laura Lark's life story.
20. Take a family portrait of two families.
19. Illustrate a scene or make an object from Paul Arensmeyer's life story.
18. Recreate a poster you had as a teenager.
17. Record your own guided meditation.
16. Make a paper replica of your bed.
15. Hang a windchime on a tree in a parking lot.
14. Write your life story in less than a day.
13. Recreate the moment after a crime.
12. Get a temporary tattoo of one of Morgan Rozacky's neighbors.
11. Photograph a scar and write about it.
9. Draw a constellation from someone's freckles.
8. Curate an artist's retrospective in a public place.
7. Recreate 3 minutes of a Fresh Air interview.
5. Recreate an object from someone's past.
3. Make a documentary video about a small child.
2. Make a neighborhood field recording.
Sunday, June 28, 2009
Rafts in Water
Everything has a centre to which it falls
And I remember
In the ether when you had already landed here
With our parents,
I began falling.
Somewhere in the second year of your life you called my name
In a dream perhaps, or while playing in the yard with miniature men
Dressed up in war
You called my name and I was brought toward
You called my name like calling out the thunder
Or spring.
Our parents hushed voices
The air through the window
The creeking front door
The light on the ceiling.
And then…
Red wagons, tin can shoes, piles of leaves, construction site, ice through windows,
Running away, swing sets, hockey sticks, battle beasts, grass like fur, fur, birds, runaway hamsters, long hills to walk up, bullies who I destroyed for you in my mind, penny candy, attic spaces, ladders, rafts in water, water snakes, chasing dogs and skunks and light
And light
These years have spun so quickly
And all I can say truly is that
I am grounded because you
remembered me
From that place where we had no names.
I am sometimes off in a space with no hands to hold me.
I am often tripping over choices, and others, and my own breaking
And
I am always brought back
To the centre to which I fall
This gravity that holds me safer
This one who will always know me, and tell me, and remember
This comfort and grace, to be your sister.
Monday, January 5, 2009
The Winter Calf
Sunday, January 4, 2009
Do not try to write this poem
winter canyons
This year is a clear sky with a wind chill like the feel
of my heart
has been breaking ever since the beginning
it won’t stop falling wide open.
I cannot stop this falling wide open.
Every time I cry
every time i bust open these stones
i am trying to excavate some truth in this skin
this shiftable maze of vein
i drive down roads full of orchards and lakes
sing with my lungs at the top
scream out someones name that is not mine