i really like teaching teenagers. teenage girls, especially. i first had this experience at Tyler (when i was barely out of my teens myself) when i taught the Weekend Workshop class, a Sunday morning (yes, Sunday morning) pre-college type class where i taught ceramics to a small group of somnolent teenagers. in between chasing them […]
how do i say this without sounding insufferable?
i kind of hate Nantucket.
i have been in an unbelievable funk since i got here. i have tried to logic my brain out of this depression, which works most of the time these days, thanks to a well-worn and hard-won mental pathway that i can force myself down […]
from the ferry, the water looks like dark, opaque corrugated glass. the night before was hazy, foggy and humid, and as i drove onto the Cape early this morning, it started to clear. from the window that i sit at now, on my way to the island of Nantucket, i can see no land or […]
i passed my oral defense. thesis with distinction. i haven’t quite figured out what this means yet, but apparently it’s a big deal. it will be on my diploma.
oh, i just want to hold onto this feeling. hold it hold it hold it and not forget it.
i came across some of my old artist books from around 2003-2005 today. i haven’t unearthed them for at least three or four years. i was showing them to someone here at school, and after she left, i found myself diving into them. many of them are sketchbook journals, covering my time in Scotland in […]
John Cage: some rules for students and teachers.
RULE ONE: Find a place you trust, and then try trusting it for awhile.
RULE TWO: General duties of a student – pull everything out of your teacher; pull everything out of your fellow students.
RULE THREE: General duties of a teacher – pull everything out of your students.
RULE FOUR: […]
after too many years of fighting 18 wheelers on the Cross Bronx Expressway, i now taking a series of small parkways into Manhattan. starting somewhere up in Connecticut, from the Merritt to the Cross County to the Saw Mill to the Henry Hudson. all these highways in miniature, made twee by the lack of trucks. […]
one good, one bad.
the bad: i got my first rejection via email today, from SUNY Oswego. i always wonder what goes on behind the scenes when you’re rejected that fast (i sent in my application a scant two weeks ago). was my application that bad, or did they already have someone lined up? i shall […]
i’ve been blogging in one form or another since 1999. my motivations for doing it have changed over those 10 years, from catharsis to ego-tripping to therapy to writing exercise. i realized recently that all the writing i’ve done here, so much of it terrible and chronicling terrible things, is the best gift i have […]
what is said in this talk is so dense and amazing that i haven’t fully processed it yet….but i will soon. what do you think of it?