I have taken some time to work with a new camera setup at the Whiteley Center at Friday Harbor Labs. A new project has emerged: Memory Forms. Here is a preview image from the experience:
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Whiteley Center GIF Bundle Released!
Here at the Whiteley Center on San Juan Island, I have had time to focus on literary, audio, and video works.
I have completed what is definitely the final GIF sequence of the year, which I’ve labeled at the Whiteley Center GIF Bundle. Check it out on this page here.
I have just posted a large collection of large GIFs, created to round out the final days of the calendar year. This bundle, as I’m calling it, contains the aquatic and the natural, continued. It is a gentle extension of the most recent GIFs posted recently.
In the near future, I intend to create more abstract video works that will be shared in video form. This includes GIF images, but displayed in repetition. I hope that this method will make the works more accessible and retain their size and scope. This work will most likely commence in early 2021.
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Twin Falls Video
Some of the footage I carve the GIFs out of tends to be mammoth and beautiful in long form. I was inspired to make this silent video from the Twin Falls of the Cascades outside Seattle by the ambient elegance and power of Ana Roxanne’s amazing albums, Because of a Flower and ~~~. The homages to water are pleasantly always.
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Photo – Precipice
This black and white image was taken in the Sonoran Desert at the Organ Pipe National Monument in December, 2020.
I’m very grateful for Joshua Lew McDermott’s Of Spray and Mist review for Line Rider Press. Joshua looped in my naturalism and librarianship in a way that elevates the book and pushes it further. Many thanks, Joshua!
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A Gazillion GIFs 2
Another week, another processing night for all the GIFs in my night. As per the GIFs page, here’s the following additions to the family:
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A Review of Hysteria by Kim Yideum
My review of Kim Yideum’s Hysteria (Action Books, 2019) is now up at North of Oxford. This was a long-time-coming, and I had hoped for it to be published sooner. Glad to see it up now!
Read the review here.
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Kubota Koi
Being present for these ghostly beings is an ideal practice. Taken at the Kubota Gardens in Seattle on November 29, 2020.
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A Gazillion GIFs 1
A new push on my end has resulted in a flurry of fun-filled GIF images. Still moving. Still defunct as a format. These are great time consumers, capable of creatively getting me into the body of the footage I record. This is the artful way that screams in joy and terror at once.
As per the GIFs page, here are the latest offerings:
I was able to churn these out quickly and enjoyably. I have a lot of footage with a new lens that will be posted soon, as well.
Stay liquid.
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South Fork of the Snoqualmie
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A Book! Of Spray and Mist
Of Spray and Mist is here.
After nearly two years of work on a single manuscript, Hand to Mouth Books in Walla Walla, Washington has published Of Spray and Mist. At 122 pages, this full-length book features several sequences of poetry, including work first written on San Juan Island’s Friday Harbor Lab’s Whiteley Center last December. You can read more below (or skip over to the Goodreads page).
After long wait, I’m pleased to announce a review of the stellar Ensō by Seattle-based Shin Yu Pai. This writ arrived out of a flash of creative exchanges between Shin Yu and me quite some time ago. It feels like quite a while ago at this point (all Pre-Covid), making this publication feel even more celebratory. Read the review of the unique book here.
My review of Catherine Owen’s extraordinary Riven is now up in North of Oxford.
My latest review revisits the works of Caroline Bergvall by way of her latest book, Alisoun Sings. It’s available in the online edition of Rain Taxi.