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memoir

This is an ongoing endeavor for which I haven't found the most fitting form to materialize. I am using this page as a repository for all the references, thoughts and smaller, concrete experiments. To know the actual shape of the project is going to take a while...

a trip to the natural history museum

struck by

the preserved shell of a lobster (j, 2014/15/16/17/18)
butterfly specimens (dad, ~first apartment, dim lights)
the sublimity of a whale bone (oaxaca, soroya, 2017)
the oldest animal is the quahog (emmet, 2016)
como the giraffe and ramon the rhino? (unencountered, the zoo in blijdorp)
seashell fossils (mom, nw china, 201?)

mütter museum in Philadelphia

a trip to de Hortus

butterflies
flowering maguey

re-read

I have not worked these into synopsis or comparative criticism. If ssomething has been synthesized or is no longer relevant, I will delete it from the list.

"Certain Fragments", Tim Etchells[1]
"The Archive", Documents of Contemporary Art
"Poetics", Aristotle[2]
"Dear Reader, Don't Read", Catalog: Ulises Carrión, Guy Schraenen[3]

Photobooks

"Buena memoria", Marcelo Brodsky
"Atlas", Gerhard Richter
"Family Register", Mu Chen and Shao Yinong

watch

The Casting, Omar Fast [4]
Talk Show, Omar Fast [5]
Five thousand Miles

phrases

personal memories & cultural history

traveling & exile

serendipity & choice

the universality of emotions

empathy through narratives

bits & pieces

Things I wrote: "Rule of Novels"/"Eating Alone in Tallinn"/"Dinner"

Things I did: Rooftop Barter/Future Memories/Mobile Lemon (tinyletter)

"And sometimes, sometimes...men, missing what was once home, we cry silently in order to become old men." (Reza Jalali/Moth)

saudade [6]

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 This is an ongoing endeavor for which I haven't found the most fitting form to materialize. I am using this page as a repository for all the references, thoughts and smaller, concrete experiments. To know the actual shape of the project is going to take a while...
-== read ==
+== a trip to the natural history museum ==
+struck by
+* the preserved shell of a lobster (j, 2014/15/16/17/18)
+* butterfly specimens (dad, ~first apartment, dim lights)
+* the sublimity of a whale bone (oaxaca, soroya, 2017)
+* the oldest animal is the quahog (emmet, 2016)
+* como the giraffe and ramon the rhino? (unencountered, the zoo in blijdorp)
+* seashell fossils (mom, nw china, 201?)
+mütter museum in Philadelphia
+== a trip to de Hortus ==
+* butterflies
+* flowering maguey
+== re-read ==
+I have not worked these into synopsis or comparative criticism. If ssomething has been synthesized or is no longer relevant, I will delete it from the list.
-* "How to Write an Autobiographical Novel", Alexander Chee[https://library.memoryoftheworld.org/b/nx3H5c577No1nA1_otrRIdVgo_RO6QTs-Rshc4b-V4-vRBkE]
 * "Certain Fragments", Tim Etchells[https://library.memoryoftheworld.org/b/S7RTYVF4Njxt8s5ASurCNL_HgvDOFxm93SHw7TyPYlG_WjBQ]
 * "The Archive", Documents of Contemporary Art
-* "Beyond the Archives: Research as a Lived Process", Rohan Liz Kirsch
 * "Poetics", Aristotle[https://library.memoryoftheworld.org/b/mIMprQraUbl2TzuWE7N5rKQ6GG1pzHBdMa83_AUZgk6SsBF7]
-* "Dictee", Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
 * "Dear Reader, Don't Read", Catalog: Ulises Carrión, Guy Schraenen[https://monoskop.org/images/c/c8/Carrion_Ulises_Dear_Reader_Dont_Read.pdf]

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