Be Kind, But Tell Them the Truth
Finding the Rovellis, 3: One hour with the woman who had been keeping my family's record for ninety years.
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Composer, artist, philosopher. Writing from inside the encounter.
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On dawn walks, a deliberate disappearance, and a box of letters found under a bed
The Ensemble That Breathes Without Chance
On a piece with no name, a discipline borrowed from a row, and a silence that found its own place
Before I Knew the Word
On a fish tank, a wire in the wind, and a feeling that arrived before its name
The Thrown Stick
On a church built for words, a child’s verdict, and an answer that took the room twenty years to give
The Moon Had a Ladder
On a tea house at the Barbican, the smell of burnt wood, and a small room that opened into something vast
What the Building Kept
On a brass wall, a buried stream, and the law of belonging
The Wheel of Time
On hearing a poem once, and what the book couldn’t return
The Geometry Remains
On making a work that undoes itself
A Present That Withdraws
On noticing what was always there
What the Machine Didn’t Measure
Colony, a coincidence, and the limits of the apparatus
Just Here
What failure sounded like
What the Room Was Doing
An encounter with Joëlle Tuerlinckx, Chicago, 2003
I No Longer Cultivate My Memory
A story about John Cage, a car ride, and what openness actually costs
Notes on Iconoclasts
Glenstone on a fall afternoon
The Weight of Everything Available
What the archive offers and what it prevents.
Three Artists, One Gesture
How a prank became a method and a method became a clearing