Category: DAWDLING
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Ripped through Time and Space
“Hello Grandpa”, kindly defiance, defiant humility and with a feeling like I am not done with my story either. Well, you would have to come out of hiding too faced with that kind of greeting wouldn’t you? Really, after that sunny command you are not going to stay crouched down on your knees with your…
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You Are Pulling My Leg, Aren’t You?
PART I There is a lot of green in India. Probably too much. The artist Howard Hodgkin will be exhibiting a group of new paintings later this year. Some of the paintings connect with the part of his life which he spends in India each year. He stays mostly on the west coast for about…
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Santa is Back in Town…
It is that time of year again when some old man with a big beard and a reality problem visits all our homes. And as we sit around the fire together on dark December evenings, jesting and telling each other stories of death and life, we can hear the whispering of the Ancestors as they draw…
Categories (2024) are:
- ATELIER Work – about-creative-work (in all mediums: text-drawing-sounds-image etc)
- CLIMATE Action – indications-and-contra-indications
- DAWDLING – walking-pausing-to-wonder-wandering
- IN Conversation – companionship-and-connections
- LA Communita –participatory-collaborative-artivism
- OTHER than Human – animate-and-inanimate-terrestrial-kin
- PARANOID Readings – violence-and-fundamental-perversions
- POLITICAL Readings – mobilisations-affect-polarisations
- REPARATIVE Readings – inspiring-healing-restorative
- SHADOW Readings – speculative-and-not-yet-visible-thinking
- STYLE Readings – scales-and-familiarities
- TONITE at the Coliseum – live-experiences-performance
- YOGI (‘Not This-Not That’) – meditation-bhakti-consciousness
Different WORDSTALL Categories in the past supported the mainly experimental personal writing in posts. The previous list of Category headings was: Anti-gravity Surgery / Atelier / Catastrophe Games / Echo Effects / Exodus / Fundamental Perversions / Hitting the Potholes / Holy Fool-Hero / In Conversation / Old Men Traveling / On the Street / Out in the Wilderness / Over and Beyond / Tonite at the Coliseum. Some of these still persist or recur as Tag key-words.
The even earlier Category headings for the walkingtalkingwriting blog (2006-2012) have been forgotten, but can be explored if desired via the long tail of monthly posts for those years here.