“Artists, poets, whatever you want to call those people whose job is ‘making’ take in the commonplace and are forever recognizing it as worthwhile. I think I am always collecting in a way, walking down a street with my eyes open, looking through a magazine, viewing a movie, visiting a museum or grocery store. Some of the things I collect are tangible and mount into piles of many layers and when the time comes to use those saved images I dig like an archaeologist and sometimes find what I want and sometimes don’t.” —Sister Corita Kent

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Blue Angel

“Did any of them feel the vast undercurrent of grief that was palpable, at least to me, at all times?”

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Diary 54

Drinking paper planes; butterfly migration at Crater Lake; “what is the correct ethic for reading this work?”

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Diary 53

Half-mile from the Rio Grande; green chile stew, bison steaks, fry bread; the Agnes Martin gallery

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Diary 52

NYE in Chicago; a stray cat; Paula Modersohn-Becker

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Diary 51

Björk attacking a reporter; “protect the vulnerable and speak the truth;” Miron Zownir

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Diary 50

"While I’m running I feel more ghost than body;" echo chambers; collectivism vs individualism

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Diary 49

"Going for a soft-skullet;" mono-no-aware; Marlene Dumas; Anna Kavan

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Diary 48

Three poems; Odd Nerdrum; past colliding with present; attachment theory

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Diary 47

Two poems; sword lilies, Laurel Nakadate, japanese acid folk; “I’m just a humble waitress”

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Diary 46

Found letters; moss you could smell before you could see; June Nutter, “Love Walking out of the Room”

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Diary 45

Randy Stromsoe’s shop; a hefty spoonful of poison oak honey; “wanting a place to hide”

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Diary 44

Casper Allen; old photos of my Croatian grandma; “to burn holes, to spill light, to spiral meaningfully”

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Diary 43

Candlelit show in an old bathhouse; “the function of memory in shoegaze”

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Diary 42

Spring showers at The Getty; Claude Cahun; “dead tissue changing color”

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Diary 41

Blind faith; perfume descriptions; three excerpts from True Stories, by Sophie Calle

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Diary 40

a poem titled “Patchwork;” exploring ghost towns around the Salton Sea

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Diary 39

Heirlooms; visiting old haunts; delicate folk & Chicago blues

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Diary 38

November playlist; “to stand steady & resolute in the midst of great sorrow;” two poems

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Diary 37

Objects of the moment; “it’s age is probably best pronounced in the sound of it’s bells”; burial niches and mausoleums

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Diary 36

Incense alarm clocks; tea ceremonies; the analeptic powers of sleep

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