WHY DO YOU DO IT? WHAT DRIVES YOU?
Because only I can. What drives me is my daimon. We all have one. I'd suggest talking to it.
James Hillman says, “The soul of each of us is given a unique daimon before we are born, and it has selected an image or pattern that we live on earth. This soul-companion, the daimon, guides us here; in the process of arrival, however, we forget all that took place and believe we come empty into this world. The daimon remembers what is in your image and belongs to your pattern, and therefore your daimon is the carrier of your destiny.”
WHAT IS ONE THING YOU DO FOR SANITY MAINTENANCE?
Journaling and Dreamwork and Exercise (does wonders).
WHAT IS THE SCRAPPIEST THING YOU’VE DONE TO MAKE OR SAVE $$?
I worked at an insulation factory in Tallmadge, Ohio. The one that sells the pink insulation with the Pink Panther on it. It was in 2016, right before I moved to the Bay Area. It was a 12 hour shift with one 30 minute break.
YOUR TASK IS TO PRESCRIBE ONE BOOK OR FILM TO THE COLLECTIVE FOR MANDATORY CONSUMPTION. WHAT IS IT?
Madame Satã by Karim Ainouz (2002).
It's a film about João Francisco dos Santos (1900-1976), a drag performer and capoeirista from Brazil. In between his drag performances, his days as a hustler and his convictions of murder, he is the legendary cabaret performance artist Madame Satã. It's said he once faced a 24-man platoon and battled them to a stalemate, forcing them to flee after leaving seven of them badly wounded, two with broken arms and two with split livers.
João is quoted for once saying, "I was born an outlaw, that's how I'll live."
current obsession?
Listening to small gods in objects, pornography, sand talking, and psychomagic.
But to be specific, it's a Nagae Shigekazu's piece called "Forms in Succession #11" (2010). It's a work at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Imagine two collapsing boxes made of porcelain, one inside the other. So seamlessly balanced with each other that they seem connected. The slouching interior box nestled inside like gently bowed paper. It's like a successive wave crystallized. I tear up everytime I look at it.
MOST USEFUL FAILURE?
Dropping out of college. At 34 I'm now beginning to finish what I started. But I
Ai, d.a. levy, Alan Kaufman, Brontez Purnell, Myself
WHAT ARE YOU CURRENTLY WORKING ON?
A photography series inspired by the work of Dean Sameshima, William E. Jones, and Lorna Simpson. I have two poetry manuscripts I want published (holler if you're an editor). I'm slowly working on a photography book with images I've been sitting on for like 5 years. Lastly, I'm working on a TV show idea with a friend in LA.
DISCIPLINE OR ANARCHY?
Cyclical Rebirth (aka Anarchy)
