The Portraits
One hundred and twenty-two subjects, held still long enough to speak
Sixty-seven literary portraits from the writing practice. Fifty-five fictional musicians from the novel Good Grounds.
The Writing 67 portraits
A Word Is A Room
All Senses Human and Other Natures
Oldboy maestro … an American who defined sound operating under conditions other traditions never fathomed.
All These Difficult Human Realities Inspirational
here is how it happened
All This Stuff Gratefully Will Carry Us to Our Deathbed Days
Miss Mr … lonely butterfly alone come down … royal butterfly … come down from up there.
Also Backwards and Right Side Up
Take kindness back begins with us. Again. Again.
Are We Working Too Much Inside English
Not taking enough risks? Not breaking it… mining it… fragmenting it… letting grammar crack where meaning cracks.
Big Problems Take Longer To Fix
So like when you accidentally put your t-shirt on backwards … then as a result lost it.
Big Time Art
Here comes a one percent-er in a silk suit with entitlement pockets … the endless museum ceiling is a delusional dream.
Blended Zebra Mussel Memory
Arriving in the ballast water of a vessel carrying something unknown.
Blue Ball Mess And Mix
this is who we are … no axe to grind … no drama …
Board Of Meeting Seriously
We love this … from the top and bottom of our heart and soul combined!
Border Wall Size Mirror of Nonbiodegradable Stuff
We want to be that that is in between two targets … two bull's eyes.
Both Natures Spell on Us
Earthly heavenly conflict zone and conflict zones …
Bowed Cello Playing Sound Of Words Next To A Killing Field
we sometimes have a lot of fear … our nation has a lot of fear …
Broken Caucasian Ruler
Of European origin. Rule of thirds … rule of thirds … rule of thirds.
Brrd Message To All Senses Active Receivers
mend hurts … mend hurts … mend mend hurts and shattered past experiences …
Buried Disclosure
We're in an archeological dig right now, but we're not supposed to tell you the location.
Busy Mind To Silent Monk Walking
we are desperate because we sense deceased kindred spirits … really great workers …
Careful Children
SAfeTy First. Keep THIS ARt worK AWAy From THE Scalding Hot WATER.
Catch Our Hug Hold Ride
Opening is always a risk …
Clasp Of The Political Class
The children we grew up with in buckskin … Working people …
Compost Aroma Almost Poem
"Stinky" was a joke. "Interesting aromatic" was an elder leaning into manure … and finding a study.
Conduction
A grandmother's kitchen in Milwaukee. An ornament in a melody that traveled from Sarajevo.
Contemporary Subdued Deep Red Blend
It is just too painful to show red blood. So the white stains and marks represent red human and animal blood.
Could Of Should Of Sentence
Written sentence and prison sentence combined or wonderfully woven together in speech.
Different Animal
Ten digits from caked chemical resistant gloves and half of a slightly rusty tin snips.
Early Morning To Midafternoon Conversation With A Baobab Tree
We came before we were ready. That's the way to meet someone a thousand years older.
Ever So Present Ruining of Our Nation
The rest of our body is not a floating parade …
Fluid Mosaic
Regarding portrait paintings … portrait photographs and sculptures of figures … absolutely still in time.
Fourteen Frequencies of We're Going To Shine
Warm bodies in a room and one dog. Radiating. Infrared prose.
Hand Me the Matches
Hand me the matches. Sleep comes dropping slow now in these our later years.
How Bad We Love This Type Of Life
Prompts humming in heads wanting to pick up another sweet rotation …
Lake Salt Broken Flight
Flocks of migrating birds … Invitations to go inward …
LAST Fall
Four hours. Three acts. Forty-five scenes. Silences lasting three minutes.
Let the Wild Thing with a Pulse Move
Yes, we have a banana to hold with our left or right hand. Four fire horns.
León (Lion) oder (or) Agneau (Lamb)
Minutes Open
How is the start of your morning going? Honestly?
Night Tell Us Why Lomah
Every hour we walk by displays and synchronicity of people going from here to there and back again …
Noir Song
Not Close To A River This Time
It has rhythm but is more like a tributary system … fast to slow multiple feeding.
Palimpsest
Revision as archaeology. The layers show through. What was written first is still underneath.
Plantless Garden
We can't tell you how it all works.
Red Tongues First
Oyparaploo speaking on the surface of Indigenous red tongues first.
Sad Things and Disturbing Objects
Typical humans get famous for something and too easily lose sight of … forget what their original dream was.
Sensing If There Might Be Another Major Collapse
Hey. We are not going to fix anything in the next few sentences.
Voices
The people, concepts, and places that populate the practice. Each card holds a world.
Water Can Be a Worldly to Local Collective Practice
Listen to the trickles of waters … that are part of the Minnehaha Creek experience …
We Think You Misunderstood
Thirty or so rules and hard stops … hitting a wall every paragraph …
We Tried Our Best To Resolve The Situations
Thankfully nobody organized against the work …
What is the Rationale for No Hands
Frames crop hands on rifles … hands reaching through busted doors.
What the Bluffs Returned
What Went Wrong?
No Backlash Periods what so ever … No Sellout Accusations surprisingly …
Where To Place The Chairs
She had her back to them. The chairs were arranged that way …
Why Another Foot Is Important
Every previous piece started from an object and described what it saw.
Each portrait begins with a territory.
The place that shaped the sound before the sound had a name.
The place that shaped the sound before the sound had a name.
Good Grounds
Fifty-five musicians who do not exist
Each one given a territory, an instrument, and a door.
Minnesota31 portraits
Conduction
Lena Petrović
The Guitar in the Broken Case
Mare's Tail
What the Machine Held
Aino Mäkelä
The Voice He Hated
Anders Lindqvist
What Aire Held
Alma Lindgren
What the Bluffs Returned
Lenore Strand
What the Building Held
Nils Torvik
What the Coin Held
Elise Sørensen
What the Curfew Held
Kai Eriksen
What the Hermitage Held
Hale Bergson
What the House Heard
Mariel / Mars / Red Moon
What the Inlet Held
Petra Voss
What the Lake Held
Sofie Dahl
What the Ledger Held
Rowan Ash
What the Light Held
Ingrid Moen
What the Marsh Held
Dag Holst
What the Mill Held
Frida Holm
What the Mirror Held
Birte Lund
What the Night Held
Oskar Vang
What the Porch Held
Turid Bakke
What the Prairie Held
Sven Thorsen
What the Rain Held
Astrid Kvam
What the River Held
Leif Strand
What the Road Held
Hanna Berg
What the Snow Held
Mikkel Dahl
What the Stone Held
Ragna Foss
What the Train Held
Lars Kolstad
What the Tree Held
Sigrid Aas
What the Water Held
Tor Lie
What the Wind Held
Knut Haug
What the Winter Held
Bente Vik
Northeast6 portraits
Southwest7 portraits
Northwest & Lakes5 portraits
International6 portraits
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