genuine kindness
Your favorite qualities in a man ::
Your favorite qualities in a man ::
honest, kind, open
Your favorite qualities in a woman ::
Your favorite qualities in a woman ::
honest, kind, open
Your favorite occupation ::
Your favorite occupation ::
one that brings a person a good level of satisfaction
Your idea of happiness ::
Your idea of happiness ::
the ability to find joy/contentment while facing life’s turbulence
Your idea of misery ::
Your idea of misery ::
the inability to find some level of satisfaction in life
if not yourself, Who you would like to be ::
if not yourself, Who you would like to be ::
one of my other selves
Where would you like to live ::
Where would you like to live ::
in pockets of time/space that are free of state violence/control
Your favorite color ::
Your favorite color ::
the color of fog, particularly as it moves across San Francisco
Your favorite flower ::
Your favorite flower ::
all of them really, I’m a flower glutton
Your favorite prose authors ::
Your favorite prose authors ::
Jodorowsky’s Where the Bird Sings Best for the second time - I think because I love the idea of genealogical mythologies - and I recently finished Michelle Zauner’s Crying in H-Mart which is fantastic. Anything by Octavia Butler, which I have taught in the past. OH! How could I forget my ongoing obsession with Isabelle Eberhardt - she is highly influential. And all the writings of Leonora Carrington and Remedios Varo
Your favorite poets ::
Your favorite poets ::
When I was much younger, I loved Sylvia Plath, and that is probably still in there and influential on a resonant level because I memorized her poems. Mary Oliver, Anne Sexton, Gertrude Stein, Audre Lorde … Artaud and Brecht, of course. I love reading Pablo Naruda, Octavio Paz, Lorca, and Roque Dalton in Spanish.
Your favorite heroes in fiction ::
Your favorite heroes in fiction ::
I’m not much into the heroic concept, so I guess I favor the anti-hero, because it is more complex
Your favorite heroines in fiction ::
Your favorite heroines in fiction ::
anti-heroines?
Your favorite painters ::
Your favorite painters ::
Anselm Kiefer, Basquiat, Hilma af Klint, Leonora Carrington, Remedios Varo, Yayoi Kusama, Wangechi Mutu, Devan Shimoyama, Monica Canilao, Saya Woolfalk, Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum, Kehinde Wiley, Tschabalala Self
Your favorite composers ::
Your favorite composers ::
Éliane Radigue, Einstürzende Neubauten, John Cage, Pauline Oliveros, Joe Colley, Michael Gendreau, Maja Ratkje, Arve Henriksen, Diamanda Galas, id m theft able, teahouse radio, øjerum, Emily Wells, Julia Kent, Zoe Keating, Moor Mother, Don Lifted, Guillermo Galindo, Rapoon, Jesse Ahmann, Jim Haynes, Snezhana Reizen,Tiros Won
Your favorite heroes in real life ::
Your favorite heroes in real life ::
All of those who put their life on the line for the sake of art and truth and freedom
Your favorite heroines in real life ::
Your favorite heroines in real life ::
Isabelle Eberhardt - she did it her way
What character (s) in history do you most dislike ::
What character (s) in history do you most dislike ::
FASCISTS
Your favorite food and drink ::
Your favorite food and drink ::
coffee with cream and cardamom, absinthe, amaros, WATER. I cook and eat mostly very spicy - Thai, Malay, Burmese, Ethiopian, Indian
Your favorite names ::
Your favorite names ::
Khalil or Khalilah (my child’s name) - it means “beloved friend”
Your pet peeve (something that easily annoys you) ::
Your pet peeve (something that easily annoys you) ::
apathy
The change you most anticipate ::
The change you most anticipate ::
the end of “the state” hahaha
A gift of nature you would like to have ::
A gift of nature you would like to have ::
a lovely singing voice
How I would like to die ::
How I would like to die ::
quietly, gently
What is your present state of mind ::
What is your present state of mind ::
currently it is overcast here, with a light breeze and everything is very quiet except for the birds and the leaves - my state of mind often mirrors what’s going on outside. I need more coffee though
For what fault have you the most toleration ::
For what fault have you the most toleration ::
youthful angst - I’m not sure it’s actually a fault
Your favorite motto ::
Your favorite motto ::
"My veins do not end in me but in the unanimous blood of those who struggle for life, love, things, landscape and bread, the poetry of all." ~ Roque Dalton
8 juin 2022 - 17:08
I went from a dancer to a painter, experimented with sound, went back to dance, continued experimenting with sound, started painting with light (making video). This is where I am now: using my body to capture sound and light and then building compositions from that.
Conduits of the hydrosphere took me a very long time to coalesce into a body of work that I felt I could explain properly. The philosophical text will hopefully be out in the next year. Until then, I hope that people will listen deeply and look at the artist book’s images, and maybe be curious enough to ask me questions.
Post doom romance is a collaborative project between myself and Mykel Boyd
8 juin 2022 - 17:08
I went from a dancer to a painter, experimented with sound, went back to dance, continued experimenting with sound, started painting with light (making video). This is where I am now: using my body to capture sound and light and then building compositions from that.
Conduits of the hydrosphere took me a very long time to coalesce into a body of work that I felt I could explain properly. The philosophical text will hopefully be out in the next year. Until then, I hope that people will listen deeply and look at the artist book’s images, and maybe be curious enough to ask me questions.
Post doom romance is a collaborative project between myself and Mykel Boyd
