Oyparaploo
Wonderful Garbage and Noir Song Frequencies. Thirty years of picking up what the world threw away and making it matter. Writing, making, sound, puppets, prayers, portraits, and a novel. Minneapolis ~ Saint Paul.
Same work. Different shift.
Writing
From the Ledger
63 shaped pieces and growing. Five categories, each with its own posture.
Witness
Brown Paint
Two women. Dead children. The inadequacy of brown paint. R43.20 with VAT.
Declaration
She Had a Hammer
Craft as love across time. The hammer that knew the difference between building and breaking.
Conversation
America's Weirdest Annual Variety Show
Watching from Saint Paul. Seven degrees outside. The Mississippi under ice.
The Building
Eleven Rooms
Writing
The literary work. Five categories. The Essential Ten as gateway.
~70 pages
Portraits
55 fictional portraits. A territory that spans continents.
~65 pages
Good Grounds
A novel in 22 chapters. Eight children. Moved from Austria to France.
~26 pages
Prayers
80 daily prayers. One for each day. The practice's devotional wing.
~93 pages
Puppets
LAST FAll in 45 scenes. Ten puppet characters. The Rangmanch Collective.
~62 pages
Making
Visual and object practice. Soft sculpture, assemblage, installation.
8 pages
Methodology
The tools. 70 shaping prompts, rotation prompts, the living documents.
14 pages
Artists
Collaborations. The LOVES framework. Noir Song frequencies.
16 pages
The ground
What This Practice Does
Wonderful Garbage
This thing that the world threw away matters. I will make it matter. Not aesthetic. Ethical. The shift from beautiful to wonderful honors the amazement that arrived after thirty years.
Pressure Ghosts
What the objects remember. What the characters carry. What the writing reveals. The accumulated weight of everything that happened in this forest since the organism began growing.
Middle Eye
Sees connection before explanation. Notices the gap between what someone says and what someone does. Finds the optical illusion in the natural system.