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Articulations & Wonder

"Spacetime tells matter how to move; matter tells spacetime how to curve." - John Wheeler

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Blood Lies: Race Trait(or) + (forthcoming) Percussing the Thinking Jar

The Constant and the Conditional

Sound is constant. Even if you close your ears with your fingers, you will hear blood moving through your veins and arteries. You will...

Walking through the woods, the trees are still. One may walk past their trunks the way one walks past a couch or a chair. To a...

The alarm goes off at 5 AM. Four of us wriggle, groggy, out of sleeping bags. The whistling whisper of sleeping bags thrust into stuff...

Recipe for Listening #1 Go for a walk in a populated area, and listen only for footsteps. Try to walk softly so you are not just...

"Asking the right questions in the first place takes as much work as any other process." - Jonathan Burrows, A Choreographer's Handbook...

Water is visible, so we can see how it travels. It takes the path of least resistance, surrenders to gravity's downwards tugs and heat's...

The wind was wild at the wetlands yesterday. It roared through the land-and-water-scape. It raced across and howled into my ears. It...

Listening generally puts me into a peaceful frame of mind, but every now and then a sound strikes me as funny, pleasantly rattles my...

Every so often, my ears wake up, and when they do, I hear things I've never heard before. My eyes do this too, and suddenly I see things...

"What's your growth edge?" I had just met a woman for the first time at a party, and after we exchanged names and vocations, this was her...