Jujube/memoir

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]