“…parting words from a disappearing demonic spirit.”
Tag: Essay
Substack: Principles of Dissolution: Drawing and directing
“I looked for places that were dark even in daylight.”
Substack: Efficacious Grace: “dispenser, god, protective spirit”
“My thoughts wander toward the role of pleasure and beauty in my life; how they’ve been edging out the cold familiarity of anhedonia, restriction, and isolation that once stood in their place.”
Substack: Distances and Disruptions: DJing through holes in time
“The idea of music as raw, communal, sometimes half-formed and chaotic, plunged into obscurity and re-emerging after being buried long ago was ingrained in my mind from these early listening days.”
Substack: Fiction (supernatural, amorphous): A lingering presence who watches and wanders
“I felt especially at home in this supernatural, amorphous character, which unmoored me a bit from the need to accurately describe or convey things that had already happened to me.”
Substack: Proximity to Power (Part 2): Fictionalize (and fantasize)
“I enjoyed the idea of injecting my essence into something functional and semi-hidden, of subtly influencing the proceedings beneath surface perceptions.”
Substack: Proximity to Power (Part 1: on moving away)
“I moved away from NYC over two years ago, a reality that was almost completely obfuscated by the sweeping global pandemic that arrived mere months after I landed in Vancouver, where I’d graduated from art school nearly a decade and a half previously.”
Exhibition Text: “Erik Lindman: Metal Paintings”
“Awareness is a feedback loop created somewhere between our faculties and the object, while the boundaries of a painting could provide a theoretical if not a literal kind of mirror.”
Hanna Liden and Nate Lowman: “Umbrellas and Dropcloths”
“Pedestrians’ sneakers would leave impressions on the slick wet streets, and the sidewalk silt – a mutant peat soil host to cigarette butts, boredom, annoyance, and other nuisances – would build up and finally disappear down the drains, to be stretched and hung on a wall, or hardened in a block of civic concrete.”
Real Fine Arts: “Materialism Parts 1 and 2”
“His story was like a moral tale, childishly simple, and I think it was the lack of complexity in the emotions his story conveyed that made me the most suspicious.”