Oh Dare... I cannot express the feeling here in Palestine in this moment. My impression is that this is the essence of your "resistance," and how you find so many intricate through-lines from your rooted stationing: "All i really had to do was persevere and continue practicing and collecting data." (The beauty of your writing is what moves most... like a safe dream-container... like the dark palette which makes the colors pop in nostalgic-novel and increasingly-approachable ways.) Thank you, over and again. And feeling a smidge impatient around this playlist you'll be posting eventually! Free Palestine. Free us all.
it was sweet to read this, and thanks for the media recs.
have you ever heard of jim mcdowell? the visual artmaking section of this post made me think of him. a friend sent me this podcast episode where he talks about his pottery practice + black pottery traditions + how his art functions as a medium for his ancestors' stories.
Good tea leaves are savoured twice, the second pour, a keen revision. There is gratefulness, deliciousness, quietness. Reading twice through this essay: A sense of the totality of space..the placement of body and land together, knitted as they are..precariously…the tumbles of body-time..as the dance of tea leaves.
I always find great use in your hygiene and cleaning instructions..this piece is a pearl.
Hello Dare, great to see you in this space. I wonder if the Adam Ming 10 min artist blog might be helpful to you. I started engaging with it in November and it has given me a reliable daily art practice without the usual pressure and anxiety about "finishing" I will post a link here and if you are interested I think I can gift you a free month. Sending Golden Waves of wellbeing for your teeth and holistic health!
Oh Dare... I cannot express the feeling here in Palestine in this moment. My impression is that this is the essence of your "resistance," and how you find so many intricate through-lines from your rooted stationing: "All i really had to do was persevere and continue practicing and collecting data." (The beauty of your writing is what moves most... like a safe dream-container... like the dark palette which makes the colors pop in nostalgic-novel and increasingly-approachable ways.) Thank you, over and again. And feeling a smidge impatient around this playlist you'll be posting eventually! Free Palestine. Free us all.
Thank you for this beautiful aestheto-biographical riff!
Twas a joyous bowel movement & im happy it resonates
it was sweet to read this, and thanks for the media recs.
have you ever heard of jim mcdowell? the visual artmaking section of this post made me think of him. a friend sent me this podcast episode where he talks about his pottery practice + black pottery traditions + how his art functions as a medium for his ancestors' stories.
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1180727/episodes/10744763-the-black-potter-an-ugly-jug-named-slave-outsider-artist-jim-mcdowell
after years of mainly just writing, i've also recently started drawing for the first time since childhood.
sometimes doing free writing, then spending several sessions covering it up with abstract doodles. letting it eat my words.
it's a relief to engage in something that has no agenda or 'meaning'...just to follow a sense of beauty and enjoyment from moment to moment.
Good tea leaves are savoured twice, the second pour, a keen revision. There is gratefulness, deliciousness, quietness. Reading twice through this essay: A sense of the totality of space..the placement of body and land together, knitted as they are..precariously…the tumbles of body-time..as the dance of tea leaves.
I always find great use in your hygiene and cleaning instructions..this piece is a pearl.
Yes, my life is not a series of problems to be solved.
Hello Dare, great to see you in this space. I wonder if the Adam Ming 10 min artist blog might be helpful to you. I started engaging with it in November and it has given me a reliable daily art practice without the usual pressure and anxiety about "finishing" I will post a link here and if you are interested I think I can gift you a free month. Sending Golden Waves of wellbeing for your teeth and holistic health!