A declaration of love for the English language as material. Playing with words and phrases. The made-up words, the sprinkled-in other languages. The language as clay, as garbage, as raw stuff you pick up and turn over and reshape.
Wonderful Garbage applied to the medium itself.
The beauty on the surface is real. What's underneath is also real.
The Trap Door
A warm, safe-sounding door that opens into a building full of eroded prison cells, holding cells with benches and drains, decommissioned factories, and detainment walls.
The visitor enters through the love letter and finds the history. This is not dishonest. It is architecture. The building holds both.
Inside English, looking through it, using it as the tool to reach toward what has been studied and loved from the outside.
The Position
An American who has spent close to 66 years speaking only English. The deep interest in Aboriginal culture, Inuit culture, Dakota and Ojibwe culture is real, researched over many years, and treated with respect.
The site does not claim to speak from those cultures. It demonstrates what English can do when those cultures reshape it.