surprises & visibilities

I think I just saw a Subaru with Trump/Pence sticker for the first time ever.

In the shortest span I can recall, two people Saw me because of the bike.

("Long way from home")

("Nice bike, drive safe")

still i rise.

Lookout Mtn.

The Skyline Drive.

Mt. Greylock.

Mt. Washington.

next?

eight.

or

infinity standing up?

exhibitionist.

I am at MassMoCA* so much that the bruv at the admissions desk just asked "oh, hey, you going into the galleries" before handing me a pass and a lady at the snack bar asked if I work here.

Wondering more deeply about what led to the second one.

Hm.

*And, at some point, I guess I should talk about me relationship with the place

Every time I see someone duck-lipping towards a photographic device, I contemplate a benevolent felony. 

Not exploring all the dimensions a piece of art exists in is a waste time. That goes for artist, exhibitor and witness.

i think i am thinking that callbacks and unions do not result in art.

art behind glass is useless.

"Progress without pleasure at heart is not progress at all. But oleasure without progress in mind is destructive, deadening, or a bore."

- Paul Chan

appropriation

this is from 1937.

it is by a Romanian sculptor.

it is call "King of Kings".

its shapes are discernibly West/Central African.

what is appropriation?

when is appropriation?

who can be appropriated?

Quotes and sources from S&C July 4th Readings 7/4/2019

Frederick Douglass, Fourth of July oration, July 5, 1852

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 1866 African American UU

Eleventh National Women's Rights Convention in New York City

Lucretia Mott, Harriet Eaton, Margaret Pryor, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and hundreds more women and men, Declaration of Sentiments, 1848

( the school chose 6)

• Every great dream begins with a dreamer.  Always remember, you have within you the strength, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world. Harriet Tubman *

• We should indeed keep calm in the face of difference, and live our lives in a state of inclusion and wonder at the diversity of humanity.  George Takei, 2013

• We are not waiting to be saved, we are saving ourselves despite all odds. Women in rural communities and urban centers are rising up and taking decisive action to transform their own lives. Monica Ramirez

• Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me; I lift my lamp beside the golden door. Emma Lazarus*

• Be impeccable with your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love. Don Miguel Ruiz

• People are beginning to realize, the doorman of the Stonewall Inn observed a few days after the riot, that no matter how 'nelly' or how 'fem' a homosexual is, you can only push them so far. Ann Baumann

• We the people, declare today that the most evident of truths – that all of us are created equal – is the star that guides us still, just as it guided our forebears through Seneca Falls and Selma and Stonewall. For if we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well. Barack Obama*

• When all Americans are treated as equal, no matter who they are or whom they love, we are all more free. Barack Obama*

• Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.  Dolores Huerta

• We do need women in civic life. We do need women to run for office, to be in political office. We need a feminist to be at the table when decisions are being made so that the right decisions will be made. Dolores Huerta*

• The greatest nations are defined by how they treat their weakest inhabitants. Jorge Ramos

• Life is a battle anyway. If we laugh and sing a little as we fight the f=good fight of freedom, it makes it all go easier. I will not allow my life's light to be determined by the darkness around me. Sojourner Truth*

• Strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities. WEB DuBois*

Race is a technology.

Quote from A HUMAN BEING, SORT OF.

freetyle. Or reclamation of the Atlantic (or the water between here and there)

I wish i knew how my ancestors taught their babies to swim.

or that I could remember.

The ability to speak objectively AND passionately...