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?)
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
- "Beyond the Archives: Research as a Lived Process", Rohan Liz Kirsch
- "Poetics", Aristotle[2]
- "Dictee", Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
- "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
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)
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