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The Wreckage
I’m hoping that this space will act as a living testament of my bullshit, where past and current projects will live on for all who wander by to peruse. Enjoy.
Pickle Me Keratoconus and “Thanks For Helping Me Out Of A Pickle” Thank You Card (January 2021)
Spring
101 Travelers Plaza, Somewhere, TN
gas is $2, ¢59 at the 101 Travelers Plaza. only a mile to the next rest stop — the kind of rest stop where you avoid sleeping in favor of stringing hammocks between cars of the ones you trust in an empty (but guarded) WalMart parking lot. Tennessee freeways are always straight like arrows that fly between gas stations and the next Subway where the food tastes only slightly better than hungry. you take it all over that stable ground — these dreams have wings.
faster, write faster
go faster car, faster man
can’t you think for yourself?
Self Portrait (October 2020)
Self Portrait (June 2020)
Self Portrait (October 2021)
Cartoonified Headshot (June 2020)
purpose
a burning
a desire
to have
a hidden pit
filled with sweet meats,
honey
i dream
a lion’s carcass
filled with bees
Read on…
Veggie Pun Cartoons (December 2020)
Pandemic Renga
(Spring 2019 — )
At the start of the pandemic (especially during the two month lockdown), I was struggling to connect with people in a more profound artistic way. Zoom conversations are one thing, but I had a hankering for the more intimate, 3 AM conversation at a Parisian bar with smoke hanging in the air way…
It couldn’t be too crazy, something that we could all do on our phones while pacing around the house, watering the plants, making your morning coffee, or staring at the ceiling while dreading the coming apocalypse. The solution came from a collaborative poetry project my Grandmother and I started doing a in 2019, informally known as Renga.
Renga, or Haiku no Renga, is essentially a collaborative, linked verse spin off of what we no as Haiku. The concept is rather simple, partners take turns writing haiku or responding to the others haiku. The “rules” of the haiku and response can be as rigid or loose as the participants want but in general, we stuck to the “traditional” (AKA Americanized) rules for the Renga:
The haiku contains three lines of verse -
5 syllables, 7 syllables, 5 syllables respectively
The response contains two lines of verse, both
7 syllables long.
Renga is traditionally rather long in form, going for as long as 100 complete verses but we wanted to keep things rather brief so we kept things to a short 24 complete verses for each pair.
A huge thanks to Jeff Gan, Kara Pleasants, PK Waddle, Ruta Kuzmickas, Ben Stevenson, Catie Medlock, Zephan Matteson, Chris Whitley, and especially Sharon Gilbert.