art practices that are investigations of the way our lives are organized
day 2
page of swords reversed
cycle day 18
waxing crescent
53 degrees, cloudy
Titles for the essay that will accompany the poster (series of posters?):
Business Plans for the Interim (possibilities for survival between now and New Earth)
Economic Liberation for Stay-at-Home-Moms
Distinguishing Business Meetings from Dates (can you?)
How Having Brains (AND a Pussy!) Makes You Crazy
Outline notes for said essay:
Said one way: series of Digital paintings exploring subject/ object collapse in the late capitolcene. Interrogating constructs of gender, sexuality, blah blah (more real thoughts)
Said another way: about love and gender healing for the new earth. Radical dating interventions
And another: I need some fucking money so I can be a present mother and hopefully avoid adding three more assholes to this world.
And another: as copy for dating app profile
Notes for next essay(s): on working with Aimee as an image practice (photography collab as a strange tool) (thank you to Dan for that article whose language is cited in the title of this entry)
COUNTERFACTUAL (name to pitch to collective)
(Fictitious) ACTIVITY LOG on the MOTHERCRAFT:
6:30 am wake to get boys ready for school
9:30 am studio practice (braiding scraps and coiling into form)
11:00 am phone call with Mom about keeping good energetic company, communal living, and levity
11:58 am phone call with Victoria about correspondence and finding practices that fit an uncertain future
1:45 pm Carter over to help project plan moving camper and setting up tents (do I need to put down gravel or mulch for leveling? One tent or two?)
2:45 pm pick up two littles from school
3:00 pm copy notes from article (Radical Animisms: Art Practices & Natures) while boys play Fortnite
3:44 pm respond to invitation for Subpar Residency and request update for Casa de Nada
4:45 pm pick up Addair from school. Present to the ill mood
5:00 pm short visit with Rachel, Sam, and Ruby, over to pick up left phone
5:30 pm dinner with boys, Yahtzee with Thatch and Briggs (Briggs wins)
6:45 pm read The Eye and the Impossible with Thatch and Briggs in bunkbed. Briggs falls asleep. Addair showers.
7:45 pm read The Silver Slippers and The Trumpet Swan with Thatch while he snacks on frozen peas
8:00 pm clean kitchen and dining room with Thatch and Addair, brush teeth with Thatch
8:30 pm look at 100 Things to Do in Knoxville Before You Die, read The Mindful Body with Thatch and Addair til they fall asleep
9:10 pm put pots under roof leaks
9:14 pm text Russ about possibility of checking on leak
9:18 pm correspond with Aimee about my taking artistic liberties with her photography
9:44 pm correspond with potential sugar daddy (for the arts!) which does not work out but is a sweet exchange
10:37 pm writing this and then going to bed
photo credit (modified by me): Aimee Rievley, The Sparrows Eye
