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“Something real but imperceptable”

“For years people have been concerned with what goes on inside the frame. Well maybe there is something going on outside the frame that could be considered an artistic idea.” —Robert Barry (1968) At …
March 9, 2023
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12 Collages

Collage is not a form of translation, or vice versa, but they're related. Translation and collage are both movements from one surface to another. In translation, one takes a poem, subtracts all its words-and …
February 18, 2023
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2022 Reading & Listening

Keeping with the tradition of listing out all of my favorite books and albums from this year (and not necessarily released/published in 2022). BooksAgnes Martin: Night Sea, by Suzanne HudsonThere You Are: Interviews, Journals, …
January 6, 2023
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Thoughts on Attention

In my current season of life, having a family, working, taking care of our home, and any other number of weekly tasks fills most of my time. So I’ve naturally been thinking more about …
October 17, 2022
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2021 Listening

At the end of last year I posted a list of books and music I had listened to over the course of the year. Even though we’ve still got a month left in 2021, …
November 28, 2021
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An Object Removed

This past weekend, I was fortunate to be a part of a workshop at Temple University in Philadelphia as a part of a project we’re working on at Each+Every. As a part of our …
October 10, 2021

Thoughts on Being a Dad

“The nature of impending fatherhood is that you are doing something that you’re unqualified to do, and then you become qualified while doing it.” —John Green Writing about what it means to be a …
July 2, 2021
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Kites and Spaces

During the last few weeks I’ve been thinking a lot about how ambient music has the ability create a perceived space, and can make time feel malleable, too. The first ambient song I ever …
January 3, 2021
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2020 Reading & Listening

Reading: Finished or mostly finished, in no particular order. The Sea Around Us, by Rachel CarsonDo Pause: You Are Not a To Do List, by Robert Poytnon95 Poems, by E.E. CummingsThe Gorgeous Nothings: Emily …
December 27, 2020
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Listening to Records

Arlo has picked up a favorite hobby in the last year: playing records. I love it. As soon as we come downstairs every morning, he wants to pick one out to play during breakfast. …
December 18, 2020

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