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(from Madison on 03/13/11) I a little bit questioned my presence there but on reflection I realized there's no way I would have understood the sort of positivity that was happening there if I hadn't actually gone. I wanted to witness a spectacle but I ended up just feeling warm and present, I may just have been another body but it was inspiring enough to take back. I've seen some of my friends change through all this, it feels good!



cell phone pictures!

Also, I can't remember if I posted this review of a chapbook I made earlier this year which you can see my images of here!

It's sweet and exciting, not very critical but a good way for local art writing to function, to encourage and support, sharper criticism conveyed well would do the same though. Anyhow, I always return to this portion of Albert Camus's Nobel Prize banquet speech which he delivered in 1957

"Every man, and for stronger reasons, every artist, wants to be recognized. So do I. But I have not been able to learn of your decision without comparing its repercussions to what I really am. A man almost young, rich only in his doubts and with his work still in progress, accustomed to living in the solitude of work or in the retreats of friendship: how would he not feel a kind of panic at hearing the decree that transports him all of a sudden, alone and reduced to himself, to the centre of a glaring light?"

Speaking of Nobel Prize speeches, Ijust heard this recording of William Faulkner's and it's amazing too:

rock arrangement

and also a poem zine, available from me or at Woodland Pattern Book Center in Milwaukee, that uses similar imagery:

Zines

A sample of Snake Lakes 1-4, 5 is on the way, seems like this is where most of the prints and drawings I make end up:




Snake prank ^











If ever you were to desire one of these I will send you one or all of them. I believe they will also be available at the Hovercraft holiday craft fair this December through the 62nd Dimension

images for prints & zines

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All to be available on October 2nd at Madison Zine Fest!

the news

It feels really good to be listened to. Here's something I wrote for an english class a couple months ago:

We exist in a time that is changing in big and important ways. As a general whole I think we’ve felt defeated for the past eight years. Some of us have protested or just complained but however we’ve dealt with the abusive political climate, the increasingly choking restrictions placed on our personal freedoms, we haven’t been able to escape them. I think the most impressive change I’ve witnessed is a new crazy hopefulness. People who have never taken much stock in their roles as citizens might finally feel like they matter, “they believed that this time must be different, that their voices could be that difference”. If this record voter turnout says anything it should at least say that. Even as a white, midwestern girl I feel more politically represented now than I, having participated in American media/pop culture as well as having witnessed the representation of our white supremacist patriarchal bureaucracy through these outlets over the course of my life, thought I could feel. Whatever Barack Obama’s doctrine of change means to any one person this whole process can say that if you care about something, and you care enough to do something about it, to make art, or to vote, or yell about it, or anything, it does matter and you can sincerely incite an action that’s grander than you are. It’s incredible to me that a group of people who were so beaten for so long could come together and get what they wanted, to get the man they wanted as President elected, could forget and put behind them what they needed to and to keep trying. Regardless of the myriad criticisms that could be posed in regards to the political system in the United States it’s still more than sweet. For me anyway, the election of Barack Obama seemed to validate the past century of epic struggle this country has seen. However long it takes, if it can all add up, eventually the struggle is worth it, right?
It dangerous though, this burgeoning optimism. I’m hopeful about this new administration and I’m more hopeful about the spirit it may have enlivened in people; but I know that optimism can’t stop me from questioning my world, my society, the choices I make for myself, and the choices I let my government make for me. Of course now I, and everyone else, shouldn’t stop making decisions for myself. If I want something, I can have it. In as unimperialistic and effacing a manner as possible if I want something it’s ridiculous for me not to have it. Just remember!


Also, I'm pretty sure this isn't news anymore but here are some video stills I took. Remember this one, heh? I feel like I was one of the first to have stills of this posted online (on Garrett's cool index exhibit site):