Author: Catherine

low sun

First conclusion, nice and simple: Continuation:

abstraction distraction

I’ve been busy taking a poetry workshop and online collage/painting classes at the same time. Oddness of my poetry practice vs. visual art practice. Poetry is suffering in comparison. It is so black and...

philoxenia

Philoxenia – love of strangers (hospitality) Or love of the strange, which seems something quite different. From McKenzie Wark’s article A Christmas Carol: Dedicated to Scrooge, And His Art Collection: Xmas is more like...

baby poetics

Baby Poetics, article by Joy Katz I’m obsessed with this topic, have been for a long time. How weak is any part of a baby, as a potential phrase. I can feel the sick...

locating sadness

We tried to understand and apply things our teacher Mingyur Rinpoche said – especially hard ones like, “You need to try to master the ability to feel sad without actually being sad.” Laurie Anderson,...

tall order manifesto

A Manifesto: How to Make the Art World Bearable Again, by Filip Noterdaeme We need more artists who are not concerned with doing the “right thing.” We need more artists who find ways to...