Here is a still from an animation video of my wire fish puppet, made from old film strips, who swims vigorously to gobble the bushes of my hot summer garden. Like music, animation is an easy path to feeling, memory, questions, sanity and play. A beautifully written and unsentimental essay here leads us to our capacity for generous […]
Visual Arts
Hostile Appliances
This is an entertainment center. It resides in a museum in Berlin I visited some years back. This space-age throwback is marvellously inconvenient within a world of artificial intelligence that slithers into our bodies to harvest us. I’m SURE it worked. It’s German. It stabbed me in the shins and poked my head when I went past.
Solace for Childless Cat Ladies
Just a few words from the depths of my Summer mode. Check out the beautiful robot family by DeVon Smith at the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore. Childless or catless? No worries. Make your own from garbage. And then register them to vote. We loved visiting the AVAM – it’s a heartening place of deeply ritualistic dreamworlds by […]