Monthly Archives: August 2005

image in a furniture store window

look closely

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my sister’s hands

The photograph of my sister’s hand (on a bench in the recent addition to Minneapolis’ Walker Art Center) didn’t turn out as well as I would have liked. The tracing-paper-thinness of her skin, the myriad lines and cracks, the spots … Continue reading

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making the mundane confusing through translation

1.1 This was idea of all Bens. Blames it before you blames me. Or blames it for 51% at least. I assume that it is my whole disturbance, which I took and decided the idea to run with it. Blames … Continue reading

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Obtund Mess vs. covertly unreal realistic

WHAT FOLLOWS IS A WORK OF FICTION (DAMMIT) [this is a reprint of memo 187_03.31.04] Obtund Mess: (1968-1972) Formed spontaneously on an acid trip gone somewhat awry in early 1968, the band became quickly famous for their impenetrably loopy psychedelic … Continue reading

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part n

I think it might be time to insert a note into these proceedings–a small bit of stepping out from behind the (what I see as) translucent curtain to wave and smile a little more clearly. We are working toward transparency … Continue reading

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