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Images sometimes stay with one for a long while (e.g. this cover from a 2005 catalogue for Lee Valley) before they rhyme with another that opens up the imagination (the back cover of Stanley Tucci The Tucci table : cooking … Continue reading
Provenance Marking Inventions
Dr. Hilary Green @HilaryGreen77 Associate Professor, University of Alabama. Author of Educational Reconstruction: African American Schools in the Urban South (2016). via Julian Chambliss @JulianChambliss #Professor @MichiganStateu #BlackImaginary Exploring #Digital, #Comics, #Cities, & #Culture. #AssemblingtheMCU #CitiesImagined via Kathleen Fitzpatrick @kfitz … Continue reading
Albino Carrots
Memory chains. Sitting in our living room, facing each other, contemplating what might be for dinner, he can’t remember the word. Out comes “albino carrots”. And so I contribute “parsnips”. Forever to be remembered as “albino carrots”. Chained to memory. … Continue reading
Random Access Stash
Jan Morris interviewed in The Guardian by Tim Adams Morris looks around her bookshelves, the thousands of books that line this long room floor to ceiling. “People always say: ‘Have you read them all?’” she says. “No. but I have … Continue reading
Space, Smell and Memory
Ursula K. Le Guin “Living in a Work of Art” Words Are My Matter She grew up in a redwood house designed by Bernard Maybeck. She remembers: The pantry, off the narrow hall at the foot of the back stairs … Continue reading
Farmers and Stories: Products and Producers
David Mas Masumoto in The Perfect Peach If foods are not paired with stories, no one hears the farmer’s voice and the farmer is easily dismissed. More context: Without stories, peaches become a commodity and consumers are attracted by their … Continue reading
Infused with Glamour
kissing … missing intersections All I want to do is kiss you once goodbye Now I sit with different faces in rented rooms and foreign places All the people I was kissing some are here and some are missing in … Continue reading
Lineation as Aide-memoire
From Alice’s encounter with the Duchess (Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter 9) I quite agree with you,” said the Duchess; “and the moral of that is — ‘Be what you would seem to be’ — or if you’d like it … Continue reading
Memorable Monologue on Memory
Still Alice (2014) Dr. Alice Howland: Good morning. It’s an honor to be here. The poet Elizabeth Bishop once wrote: ‘the Art of Losing isn’t hard to master: so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that … Continue reading
Two Takes on Terror or Resisting Being Terrorized
Sara Krulwich The people with AIDS had very little time left and most were filled with fear. Fear of the disease. Fear of coming out. When someone would actually let me take their picture, it was an act of enormous … Continue reading