Daybook: The room you cannot leave

On Helene Schjerfbeck's self-portraits, doors, spring, and...still thinking about War and Peace...

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P.S. Upon our arrival to the Brooklyn Museum we discovered that this existed and we’d literally missed it by about an hour…

What could have been.

Also: Drawing/writing the above, I remembered that my very first post here was about painting the same door over and over. Eerie.

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P.P.S. Orion Magazine recently published my graphic essay “A Real Person,” about cars, aging, and other ~ stuff ~. You can read it here.

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Relevant links: Helene Schjerfbeck’s “Seeing Silence” at The Met. James Schuyler’s poem “Hymn to Life.” A clip from Christian Marclay’s “Doors.”Read War and Peace now!!! (and live text me all your thoughts and favorite passages)

Reading or recently read: Sea, Poison by Caren Beilen. Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner. Transcription by Ben Lerner. Half a Life by Darin Strauss. The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon. The Palm House by Gwendoline Riley. Shake Until Cloudy by Amanda Nadelberg. Descent of Alette by Alice Notley. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov.