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Bas Jan Ader Primary Time, 1974
‘In the video, Bas Jan Ader arranges flowers into bouquets that are exclusively yellow, then red, then blue, but is dissatisfied with each one.’
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Felix Gonzalez-Torres Untitled (Alice B. Toklas’ and Gertrude Stein’s Grave, Paris), 1992
Framed C-print
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Saara Ekström Limbus, 2011
‘In the new photographic series, Limbus, Ekström’s pictures blend crime-scene photography with the aesthetics of memorial altars erected at accident sites.’
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Gerhard Richter P17 (Tulips), 1995
Oil painting
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Azuma Makota Exobiotanica, 2017
‘When it comes to flower arrangements, Japanese artist Makoto Azuma is quite literally pushing the boundaries out of this world. It all started 20 years ago, when the one-time rock musician took a part-time job at a flower shop. The experience made him think: “How can I transport beauty to where it doesn’t currently exist?” His answer: bring flowers to outer space. Now, as part of an ongoing experimental artistic series, Azuma and a crew of florists, balloon experts and cameramen are launching carefully selected flower arrangements into the atmosphere.’
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Zadok Ben David Blackfield, 2012
‘Made up of more than 12,000 small steel cut plant sculptures that spring out from a blanket of sand covering the gallery floor, there is a surprise element as one walks around the installation; what initially appears to be all black reveals itself as color on the other side. Each plant sculpture takes its form from Victorian botanical illustrations which Ben David finds in old text books.’
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Tony Feher Long Term Pillow, 1997
‘Feher’s deteriorating body after his HIV diagnosis is often cited as the inspiration for his choice of supplies. Transient, degradable materials point to the short life cycles of both objects and human beings. On the other hand, the fact that so many of these cardboard, plastic and highly-perishable items are still intact after more than twenty years reveals their durability against all odds— a more hopeful message that echoes Feher’s own improbable survival (he died in 2016). In the late 1980s, an HIV diagnosis implied a death sentence, leading Feher to reexamine his artistic career and legacy. “Long Term Pillow” is the result of such introspection, a cement stone covered with deceptively-cheery bogus carnations. Resting somewhat ominously on the gallery floor, the rock was intended as a cushion for the artist’s dead body. The heavy permanence of the cement deliberately belies the ephemeral nature of human livelihood. Another funerary piece, “Le Roi de Bâton” is a reliquary, or ode to the artist’s life. A collection of his IV fluids, medication and fingernail clippings, this deeply personal assemblage is a sort of altar to Feher’s transitory existence.’
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Brian Eno Memory Flowers, 1999
‘Memory Flowers is 16 speakers facing upwards on stems, playing ambient music.’
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Jim Hodges Ghost, 2008
‘The artist assembles a realistic miniature environment enclosed by a bell jar and made entirely of glass butterflies, spiders, and other insects, perched on a mound of dirt sprouting greenery and flowers. Rising in the center of the terrarium and towering over the other elements is a clear crystal plant—a literal ghost haunting its livelier neighbors. The intimate scale and choice of materials underscores the preciousness of the natural world.’
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Eko Nugroho Flower Generation, 2014
Fibre resin figure painted with acrylic, plastic flowers
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Marc Quinn Marc Stealth Desire (Etymology), 2011
Painted bronze
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Jennifer Steinkamp Madame Curie, 2011
‘An enveloping panoramic work reminiscent of Steinkamp’s 2004 video projection The Wreck of the Dumaru, the new piece will activate a field of moving flowers and flowering trees in line with the imagery of Steinkamp’s 2010 work Orbit Without Seasons. Flowers rendered realistically for this new work include marsh marigolds, may flower, chestnut blooms, and hop plants, among many others drawn from a list of over 40 plants mentioned in Marie Curie’s biography written by her daughter, Eve Curie. The seven-channel projection will engage the architecture of the space and will require seven synchronized projections onto three walls of the 4,500-square-foot gallery.’
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Tiffanie Turner Byproduct (Ranunculus), 2022
paper mâché, Italian crepe paper, stain, glue, Quik-Tube
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Cai Guo-Qiang City of Flowers in the Sky, 2018
‘City of Flowers in the Sky is inspired by Botticelli’s Renaissance masterpiece Primavera. In about ten minutes, using the sunlit sky as canvas, nearly 50,000 customized fabricated fireworks will shoot out smokes resembling thousands of flowers from the Renaissance. As a generous gift to Florence, cradle of the Renaissance, the explosion builds new memories in its name.’
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Takuya Uemura Shoshosai 1 & 2, 2025
Several varieties of cherry blossoms, white and purple wooden cedaras, shinsho, and chara peaches
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Joe Brainard Various, 1967-1969
watercolor and collage on paper
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Ji Wenyu & Zhu Weibing People Holding Flowers, 2007
‘A huge square formed by 400 identical men of 30 cm high each. They are all wearing suits, holding pink flowers, and seem powerful. ‘People Holding Flowers’ reveals the tacit understanding within the couple. They not only continued Ji Wenyu’s clever and humorous style, but also bear Zhu Weibing’s sensitive expression and cloth crafts’ talent.’
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Takashi Murakami Perrier Commercial, 2020
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Petah Coyne Portrait of a Marriage, 2018
‘Though she is not a churchgoer today, the sumptuousness of so many Catholic cathedrals imbues her work, and the material lists for her sculptures reads like a shopping list for an especially worldly cardinal with an interest in BDSM. Portrait of a Marriage includes “silk flowers, taxidermy, chandelier, candles, ribbons, black sand from pig iron casting, resin, paint, black pearl-headed hat pins, chicken-wire fencing, wire, cable, cable nuts, quick-link shackles, jaw-to-jaw swivel, silk/rayon velvet, ⅜″ Grade 30 proof coil chain, Velcro,” plus “specially-formulated wax,” a pricey archival material that she developed with a chemist friend and patented. “It’s scalding hot—220, 240 degrees,” she said. “You just throw it and get out of the way.”’
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Cai Zhi Song Rose, 2008
‘Composed of sheet lead, the immense Rose which Cai Zhisong creates is lovely, yet poisonous and drained of color. The artist implores his audience to take heed: “Please think carefully when you are searching for love”.’
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Saj Issa Poppy Painting, 2024
‘Red splatters of paint that resemble flowers can be seen on a yellow background. Each “flower” has bullethole in the center. Free Palestine.’
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Kosen Ohtsubo Step on it, 1973
Spring onion, steel
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Taryn Simon Paperwork and the Will of Capital, 2015
Source images with botanist’s identifications
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Quique Roma Blo-que, 2020
Mixed media, motors
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p.s. Hey. ** Dominik, Hi!!! Nah, it was a good question. My coffee was just working particularly well yesterday, that’s all. Zac’s still in a dinosaur phase. Explain that. Here’s highly hoping your family concentrates on giving you a superb vacation. Have a blast. I’ll still be here when you get back. We’re not heading over there until the middle of the month. When I was a kid, when you flew to Hawaii, everyone who got off the plane would have a flower lei put around their necks. It was nice even though it was flower genocide. Love waiting for you in the (presumed) train station today at your arrival adorning your neck with the Hungarian lei equivalent, G. ** julian, Hi. Thomas is majorly worth reading, need I even say. And, yes, Amphetamine Sulphate and Philip Best individually are serious boons. My favorite Sonic Youth album is ‘Sister’. In fact, if you ever come across the original Geffen Records CD reissue of ‘Sister’, I wrote the liner notes. Surely you’ll get a tribute album someday. Heck, I’ll sing a song and donate it, assuming I’m still on the earth. (I was the lead singer of a couple of bands when I was in high school, so I at least used to be able to hold a tune.). ** Steeqhen, A gasp must be the ultimate compliment. I’m fine today, it seems. Well, yeah texting is a universal practice. ‘Vanderpump Rules’ sounds like something that’s really not up my alley, which is not to say I wouldn’t get addicted to it if I took a peek. ** James Bennett, Hi, James. Wednesday, I’ve already got my imaginary baseball bat aimed at your leg. You do have to keep those writing sinews and brain cells lubed, it’s true. But they always perk back up. I suppose doing the p.s. everyday keeps mine at least a little fit. ** Misanthrope, My sense is that it won’t pass the senate without a lot of changes, but we’ll see what those changes are. No faith in nobody in office these day. *Rrrrr, rrrrr*: that’s your car revving. Just don’t hit on Kayla’s bf, and I’m sure it’ll be fine. ** pancakeIan, LA is loveable even when you know it. You should check it out. Seriously. Oh, sorry, now understood about you and Markopoulos. If you haven’t watched JW’s ‘Serial Mom’, I highly recommend it. Thank you so much about ‘PGL’! Yes, it was written in English originally. In fact, assuming you watched it with English subtitles, the subtitles are the original. I don’t kill Drew? Phew. I had forgotten if I had or not. I guess it would be rather impossible to live in Florida without an air-conditioner. Masochists aside. Decent is a good characterisation of my weekend. I hope yours qualified as well at the very least. ** ellie, Hi, ellie! What’s up? The usual, I think, all good on my end. Yours? I’ll go read your poem when I’m out of here. Yay! Everyone, ellie invites you to go read a ‘teeny’ poem by her and I invite you to as well. Click this. Happy Monday! ** Paul Curran, Paul! Buddy boy! How are you, maestro? What are you doing and working on? Big love back from the actual heart of Paris! xoxo. ** Uday, Did you finish the letter? More importantly, did you send it? ‘Halldór Laxness’, okay, I do need to finally get my shit together and track that down. Will do, thank you. That is an awfully good sentence, you are so right. ** Carsten, Hey. I generally kept up with Cannes. I watched the Closing Ceremony. I didn’t know anything about any of the films that won. But, yes, ‘Sirât’ did especially intrigue. I’m curious about the Linklater/Godard film. I love Wes Anderson so of course I’m anxious for that. And others too, I forget. The festival submission process itself is fairly easy. You just submit the same batch of things and information to everybody. Then you just wait and assume you’ll get rejected and tinily hope you won’t be. ** _Black_Acrylic, Glad Sunday was your savior. Falafel should be classified as a holistic medicine, I think. ** l@rst, Hi, buddy. I haven’t seen ‘Pavements’ as it hasn’t played over here yet, but I’m very excited. I’d like to see it projected, but I might break down and stream it illegally. I had friends who were friends with Paul Reubens. He went to Cal Arts as did most of my artist friends, and everybody seemed to know him. If I ever met him, it was quick, and I didn’t pay much attention unfortunately. You sound fiery on the creative front, pal, which is just how me and the rest of the world likes you best! ** Steve, Novelist, huh, I’ll look into it. I of course like Gary’s work in general, but I do think his Village Voice writings were possibly his best work. It was fun to read them weekly at the time, as you can imagine. ‘FD:B’ is most definitely plane fodder for me. ** Alistair, Happy you like the Moore. No, I don’t know the citizen trans* project. Huh, it seems like I would. I’ll go investigate today. Thanks a lot! You have any thought of sending them something? That sounds exciting. Yeah, thank you! ** HaRpEr //, Whenever UK football boys come over here for a match, the normally laissez-faire French get visibly tense. Yay, the video! That was fast. I’ll go watch later today. Awesome. Everyone, There was just an event called Poetry at the National Gallery in London, and there’s a video of it, and, mostly importantly, our very own HaRpEr // is one of the readers, the second one to be precise. Be like me and go watch right here. I’ll be happy to get a look and listen to Steve too. He sounds amazing. I distinctly remember seeing Michael Clarke’s butt in ‘HtNP’. It’s not something one forgets, haha. The new Sparks is out? Yikes, I’ll get it today. Cool. Have a great one ’til tomorrow just to begin with. ** lotuseatermachine, Hi! Warmest welcome! Yeah, I know that this place and its lengthiness seem intimidating, but the thing is once you come inside it’s like sitting around in your best friend’s living room, or so I hope. Thank you from the sidelines for speaking so well about Thomas’s work and to him. So, now that you’ve broken the veritable ice, how are you? What are you into and up to, if you care to say? ** Bill, Hi, B. Hm, how is that I don’t know about ‘The End’? I have the peculiarity of really not like Tilda Swinton, so perhaps it glanced off my eyeballs thereby. Well, I’m curious about it now. Thank you, pal. ** Thomas Moronic, Hey T! Thank you so very much for talking to all of the commenters. So kind of you. And, oh, I love the novel. I do think it might be my favorite of your work yet. Saying something there. Have the loveliest day, sir. ** Okay. I like all of you so much that I’m giving you flowers today. See you tomorrow.
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Hi Dennis. Wonderful curation, I think my favorite pieces you selected were the “Paperwork and the Will of Capital” photographs. The letters identifying the flowers make the images seem so clinical, especially paired with the lack of context provided for the events transcribing in these photos. Its almost nauseating but this visual style is quite compelling to me, the lighting in the first one especially.
My friend Jay encouraged me to comment here, or rather, has been encouraging me because I can get nervous. I sent a pretty neurotic email a while back out of said nervousness but like, email sucks & Jay said your blog is where its at. Since then I’ve finished both Period and I Wished, and I’ve started both The Marbled Swarm and Dream Police. Your work means a lot to me, Dennis! I’ve never felt more understood than I do when I read your stuff.
Also, I have a question for you if you don’t mind me asking. Did you ever have any run ins with Steve Albini? I know you two shared some mutual friends- Sotos comes to mind- and like yourself, Albini’s life & work is a bit (understatement of the century) of a special interest of mine. Speaking of Sotos, I watched that one lecture you invited him too that’s up on Youtube. Really interesting stuff, if you haven’t perused the comment section of it before I’d recommend it cause in between the typical discourse such a video would attract there’s some oddly amusing remarks here and there.
Hope you are having a good morning or afternoon or evening or some secret fourth time of day. Jay is telling me I should send this comment now.
That Murakami Perrier ad is quite something. He’s the master of J-Pop Art that’s beautiful and terrible at the same time.
Hi from Chania
So reading now a little better the Thomas day, you can’t really go wrong with emotional skies on the cover art
My favourite Sonic Youth song is Becuz, the first song from Washing Machine To be more accurate is one of my favourites
I used to listen to is when I was rocking it as star of my apartment and going mad with emotion
Now expanded a little as of my neighbourhood
I used to follow Cannes in very thorough way, reading everything going on
I lost it completely in recent years. I will try and read about this year’s festival I don’t even know the winners
Hi from Chania with the neighbourhood with dreamy but oppressive feel and with neighbours having too many opinions about stuff and me being in love with some guys secretly
Hi from me trying to recreate the hairstyle in freshly showered hair that looks like distinct blades
the one that happened in those years in my room for no audience to see for no audience to see and me thinking it belongs in youth because it does not happen anymore
If it happens I will take some selfies to celebrate
Hi from me going to cook fasolakia in a bit
So what is going on in your world except from the forthcoming Room Temperature showings? Love from Crete btw yesterday it was raining pure mud everywhere it’s still around as dust and mud
freshly showered hair but fully dry*
Great stuff there. I like the Gertrude Stein grave, Limbus & Brainard. And the Saj Issa piece—flowers & bulletholes, no wonder that combination appeals to me.
The (what I’d call) “correspondence timing” is wonderful: I was just working some unusual flower imagery into a poem. That & the above makes me flash to some favorite flower poetry: “o flower fawn about to come out, playing in this flower water” & “I do not want these flowers moving but the flowers want to move” (Yaqui), “I destroy one with flowers; I destroy him with flowers; I injure one with flowers: with drink, with food, with flowers, with tobacco, with capes, with gold. I beguile, I incite him with flowers, with words; I beguile him, I say, “I caress him with flowers. I seduce one” (Aztec)
to be found here:
https://ubu.com/ethno/poems/flower.html
https://poemsandpoetics.blogspot.com/2021/08/a-rediscovered-poem-4-offering-flowers.html?m=1
What I heard about the Linklater/Godard didn’t sound so thrilling. That it’s a very tasteful & stylistically conservative work JLG would’ve hated. But who knows.
Oh I got another free trial on my radar (after MUBI): Sooner. They stream Permanent Green Light, so I’ll check that out soon. I don’t know if it’s just Germany or elsewhere, but here’s the link: Hey I’m watching Permanent Green Light. Check it out now on Prime Video!
https://watch.amazon.de/detail?gti=amzn1.dv.gti.6c010955-4a4a-450e-a9c9-178ea77e7e4f&ref_=atv_dp_share_mv&r=web
Do you & Zac get royalties or an upfront $ deal with channels like Sooner? If not, I’d prefer to pay to see it. I have no clue how these streaming deals work for creators.
Hi, Mr.Cooper. It’s seems you read the comments on here so I decided to write some words despite my bad English. I’m a college student living in Korea and I found your novel ‘Wrong:stories’ in my school library on March. I don’t know why I picked it up maybe I had remembered your name unconsciously, mentioned in some interviews of rock band I’d seen on the internet, I guess.(probably Xiu Xiu or old Manic street preachers’ interview? I don’t know.) That was your only book in the library. I checked the borrowing history, and there’s one in 1995, and mine, 2025.
I read it and I’ve been obsessed with it. I wanted to read more of your works so I requested library to buy ‘Frisk’ and ‘Closer’. Library usually decline book requests that need oversea shipping because of budget, but there’s a phone call, and they said request accepted. It took 2 months and totally worth it. Now our school library has three of your book. Honestly, I don’t think I fully understand them due to difference of language, culture, and time, anyway, I enjoyed them. In my own way. When I finished them, it felt like the moment I read ‘Crash’ by J.G Ballard for the first time, but maybe little more relatable. Especially scenes about music. Like, listening to favorite record with friends and lovers, joining the band, having a crush on one of the band members, being drunk at the venue and being inappropriate… Something I do often.(Except for weeds. It’s very illegal in here.) I liked the moment when I found names of the artists I like, such as Eno, Echo & the Bunnymen and Sparks (By the way I’m curious about your opinion on new Sparks album if you’ve listened to it. I think it’s great.) I also got some emotional attachments with the several stories while reading, but I don’t wanna write all of them. Sorry. Anyway, I’m gonna request your other books, maybe, I’m not sure they’ll accept this time. I’ll try, anyway. Wish me luck. I don’t know how to end this comment. I really love your work. It’s midnight in my country , and I’m listening to new Suede song. I think this gonna be my new favorite track. I hope you’re doing well. Have a great day.
p.s Your blog has a lot of interesting stuff, including today’s post. I love flowers. As a student majoring in media art and design, it’s like a gold mine. I think I should visit here often. Maybe. I don’t know… It’s kind of embarrassing to leave such a long and personal comment in a language I’m not confident in. I’m not an expressive person. I’m not even sure I chose the right words. Hope you understand. Have a great day, again.
Flowers as symbolism feel like one of those art cliches that everyone does at some point. My first anthology was called “Flowers of Filth”, in fact. I’ll make sure to order Thomas’s book later today. Very sweet of him to reply to everyone’s comments. I’ll have a collection of Phillip Best letters. Sister is amazing, I was listening to it last night while I was writing. I started a new revision of a story I’ve been working on, and I really like where it’s going so far. A song from you would be one of the highest honors I could imagine. I didn’t know you were in any bands. What kind of music was it? Were they original songs?
Hi Dennis,
Lovely collection of flowers. Exobiotanica made me a bit emotional, seeing those flowers up viewing… sensing(?) the planet from above. So too did Joe Brainard’s work. I got two Pikmin figure terrariums off friends, and it’s making me want to finally make my own little terrarium, something I’ve been meaning to do for years.
Hi Dennis. Some beautiful representations today. I think my favorite may have been the ‘Blackfield’, with that vast contrast between sameness and color. But, I would *not* have enjoyed waiting in that massive queue the vid showed . After working at Disney for so long, I’ve become a bit inured to fireworks, but those Botticelli inspired ones by Guo-Qiang were pretty amazing. Murakami’s Perrier commercial is super cute. And the Petah Coyne reminded me of some sinister horror/sci fi crossover piece.
I would not mind checking out California again, one of these years. I actually spent almost a year living and working in Oregon, right on the coast, back in ’21 . ‘Twas a great spot, but circumstance drove me back here, because of family and DisneyWorld. My goal is to get back out west again at some point…….I really don’t wish to croak in Florida.
I’ll keep an eye out for ‘Serial Mom’ . I think the only Water’s I’ve seen is ‘Pecker’, because I had a thing for Edward Furlong , back in his T2 days. That makes sense , that the English subtitles are your version of ‘PGL’ . My French is ok, but not good enough to catch everything .
Drew is still alive and well at the end of ‘Guide’, but I’m pretty sure that the Mason guy he’s involved with has illicit designs on him . So, his death could be imminent . Only you would know !
Speaking of France and novels, a young friend of mine recommended ‘Lie With Me’, by Philippe Besson . A not-so-great title to a spare, poignant book . And, it’s translated by Molly Ringwald, which made me smile. I had no idea that the 80s Brat Pack actress had become a translator of highbrow, French gay fiction. All this went totally over my young acquaintance’s head. But what can one say……..he was born in 2007 . No John Hughes flicks for him, I guess ! Cya…..
I love these. I think my favorites are Blackfield and Ghost. Or Portrait of a Marriage. Flowers are great. Everyone should be getting flowers all the time.
Yes, I’ve thought about submitting something, but I really get in my head about that kind of thing. Like I’ve been told I’m good, but how do I know they’re not just telling me something that’s nice to hear? I don’t know, I still might put something out there while I still have the chance. Starting is the hardest part, right?
Hello Dennis ! Wanted to pop in and say hi because of how delightful I found these flowers ! I’ve been working and socialising a lot – but unfortunately haven’t had enough time on my phone to draft a comment ! I was very excited to go into detail about my personal observations of podophillic (risky word for dyslexic foot fetishists) tastes in leg ends ! But I kept wanting to allocate ample time and then not having it – was asked to go into detail about your work at a dinner party and admitted with great shame that I haven’t commented on the DC blog in quite a while ! Rectifying this with this very comment – I guess this is Judith butler’s performativity in action !
Hi.
Thank you. Apologies if some words are unintelligible in the video when I’m reading. I haven’t been able to sit through the whole clip because I cringe so much I turn it off. I can’t stand to listen to my own voice.
I sometimes fantasize about gardening one day, but truly, I don’t think I could stand kneeling in the dirt for hours, so bought flowers are preferred. I remember that scene in ‘Against Nature’ when Des Esseintes buys fake flowers in unnatural colours which are more beautiful because they are artificial and never die. Maybe I’ll do that.
I am making real progress on my writing. I haven’t felt like this in a very long time, maybe ever, because I see an end in sight. I feel like I have some sort of control, like I’ve entered a kind of dazed groove when I go to write that I wouldn’t be able to explain but instinctively know the logic of. Sure, I’m totally struggling to find work, but I’m less anxious about that than I have been in the past. It feels like spring, in a good way (so a weird coincidence that it’s flower day here).
Hello friend.
I tried going to the cafe today but got overwhelmed by the so much people. I did my courtesy like “thank you” “sorry it’s been a morning” and I tried to keep it cool yet the movement the noise o just ended up sad, noticeably irritated cried and went home. So much sound and so much guilt and I know it’s my fault I got upset before deciding it was best to just leave. So I didn’t get to spend the morning reading at the cafe
but that’s too gloomy to focus on. Although I feel bad because I hope I didn’t make any of the cafe people hate me for crying in the bathroom or just generally being irritated and stressed.
I did stay long enough to eat a pumpkin bread and coffee. I don’t mean to bother people I really try to function. I have no idea if adding obligations such as the gym or writing in the cafe will even help with the isolation and suicidal thoughts but I’ll try in hope they do. Because anything is better than being dead or hurting myself
It’s almost funny, but how jejune my cries sound and how childish it feels so the only way to level out the pain in a cathartic as well as validating way is by severing my skin so that I can look at something that justifies these very immature tantrum cries of pain and it just seems wrong and weak and I cry over something ‘nonexistent” so bloody flesh kind of depletes that sense of weakness as much as it staves that desire of death.
Oh that’s cool that they trained the dog like that. I didnt get to make to make the dog museum in NY but that just means more to look forward to. If I was to show up in France would you show me the best of galleries?
I am only kidding because I must make it to Germany before I make it to France although now that I think about it: what are the best galleries you come across in the land of Paris?
Coney Island is beautiful I had a ice cream cone while I was there and sat on the beach while thinking about blisS.
QOh that’s cool you did a reading in NY Greenlight bookstore I wish I was there, so cool! When was that? Or I guess I could just look it up.
like I said , and probably no surprise to you, I had a rough day I suppose although I got through it. So I made this today https://youtu.be/Qk9E0JA-mGY?si=ZmGDC4I7Uf54unpY
It’s short but made intentfully with purpose
Songs go: Mezzanine Massive Attack, Beat by Bowery Electric Cowboys by Portishead, Inertia creep by MA and then Water by Christoph De Bababalon
And yes I used Tallulah Bankhead for the visual background because mostly every song made sense with her. And every son g has the vibe matched with the pic i used.
You can share it with the italic message @announcement thingy if you want but you also don’t have to (but I do give consent if you want to share ha-ha)
And there is a part of me that’s proud that I hadn’t let the day get to much to me because if I did I wouldn’t have made that mix and I do plan on making moree with added songs and whoo so much potential
Actually I thought about how cool it would be to offer to sell mixtapes to my local record store—but that’s a future endeavor I want to plan on day!
I’ve been thinking about buying Patty Smith’s Memoir about her and Mapplethorpe sometimebnext month because I never really thought about it but I think we are about the same age as the book and just got back from NY.
I like 60s-70s singers and artist
Bfore I died.
I usednear death. Actually I don’t know where my obsession with him ended although I remember trying to form some meeting for Bob Dylan at the ward and even having my psych roommate make magic with me (I was 12) but I sold her on Dylan
I used to be OBSESSED with buddy Holly yet the that a time was delusions and darkness of a 12 yr old.
Ok then I’ll anticipate the day you announce the screening locations. Funnn!
If you have a movie premiere near me I might make it because why not but we shall see.
I truly hope u have a good week!
Oh, I thought about getting back into dating, t my libido is a flux between absence and desire and desire comes mostly at 12:02 am and then absence comes—of fucki g course, at like 1-6pm when all the gorgeous people come out so I have no desire other than death but next month I might change that because I feel I may have alot of love to give when I start feel like giving it.
I’ve been told I’m attractive as well and I’ve had creeps try to achieve blowjobs from drugs bargains
Actually I could care less about dating I just want to be consistent when it comes to local band shows and making better friends
Oooh I just remembered when I went to that show i met a girl who said they worked as a receptionist at this local mortuary and me, unable to contain my excitement at death, gasped and said “ sorry for the visible excitement, but I love that you work at a mortuary”
How are you and your roommate do they know how to give wolf cuts (I remember you saying they are a hairdresser which, these days, is the best roommate investment you can have (I miss my hairstylist roommate)
And I am a little drunk but it’s helping me but I am a bit nervous that it makes me seem discoherrnt thru a screen but idk
I love flowers. Have u ever been given flowers? When will u be in LA this month?
hey dennis, alotta new faces above me. never gets old for me to read the messages on how your work impacted people, and i’m gonna assume it never gets old for you as well.
i really like the gerhard painting, in general i am a freak for his work, or any paintings that deal replicating photographic flaws or blurs.
gosh, it’s been a while since i posted here, i genuinelly forgot what were we talking about if we were. writing is going fine, got a printer so i can get the format to be even chaotic. writing in general is going fine, tho the thomas moore excerpts hit close to home in what i’m trying to do, in a good way. so i’ll probably order it soon.
also i think i might be finished with less than zero today, it’s been really good. i’ll try to send you my big picture opinions on it.
that should be all from me.
Pretty cheery day on the blog! That last gif is really doing it for me, for some reason. I did not finish the letter. Won’t be sending it till August for cheaper postage. Woke up really sick this morning, almost delirious—decided to google Charli XCX for reasons unknown to me, and ended up googling South Sudan instead, staring at the flag and getting really upset, asking myself what they’ve done to her. Still thinking of ‘We’ll Never Be Fragile Again’. Brilliant title, with the same grip on cadence as ‘So Long a Letter’, ‘Kavach’, and ‘Paris Spleen’. Wishing I were somewhere a little cooler right now. Ah well. Watermelons and mangos help you get by.
Dennis, I’m good, thanks! xoxo. Dig the flowers! Spring is here. Been a hectic year, helping the kiddo finish high school and prepare for university (turns 18 this summer; was eight months when we visited Paris years ago)… I finished my massive and massively strange J-novel and have been tinkering with line edits while figuring out publishing options. Also started something new, but early days. How’s your writing world? Anything bubbling?
things are good here too! i finished my post bacc year at saic so i’m just working on portfolio pieces, and i’ve been reading a tom raworth selected, which for whatever reason has felt like the coziest thing to me. here’s a flower i really like from david wojnarowicz https://www.tumblr.com/loreleitrix/784676343490166784/david-wojnarowicz