Many of us are tossing up our lives during the pandemic. Sometimes as a fantasy of “what-if”. Other times literally moving households, jobs, and relationships, or passing from this world entirely. We might move towards old haunts and old loves, and that comes with its own ghosts and baggage. And so, alongside a life-long fascination with […]
Journal
Great Conjunctions
Bones always conjure a kind of cultural seriousness. Without them we are floopy sacks of water, gristle and glop, and some would argue, we don’t seem to be more than that. Bones are associated astrologically with the planet Saturn, which had that rare “great conjunction” with Jupiter in December 2020. Those planets are symbols, respectively, […]
Lying Rabbits
I’m honored to be starting a music commission from artist Michelle A M Miller, for her book installation, “Convergence”. We got to know each other’s work last year at the Atlantic Center residency, and she is a treat to work with. Her project centers her Nicaraguan Miskito mother’s voice, memories and cosmology, interwoven with bio […]
