Dec 6, 2014
John Henry Tweet: Words used to suppress dissent
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John Henry Tweet: Words used to suppress dissent
how a certain 6 year old describes the experience of riding without training wheels. what is your strange joy?
BILLIE HOLIDAY On those last records her voice sounds almost gone— cracking, breaking—but hitting notes wasn't the point. She was after the bones of beauty not the flesh. It was far too late for anything else. She sang what must happen, what has, the death of gardenias, the abyss that the abyss falls into. It all scraped along her phrases, extracting the horrible meat hiding inside simple words, in the space between each word, between each note. And she broke our hearts until they could break no more, then broke them one more time just to make sure we got the point. Art isn't on the surface, not some decoration like frosting, like a flower in your hair— it's like a silk bag of pulverized crystal, glinting, sharp, able to cut in any direction. Her voice filled every room in our minds and showed how empty each was, how desolate the wind blowing through them and yet with sticks and stones, castoffs, garage sale losers she furnished each one with a shattered gritty beauty just before she took it all away. — Vern Rutsala
Rest in peace, Vern.
Why do you make things?
Peter Korn spoke about his book: "Why We Make Things and Why it Matters: The Education of a Craftsman" @craftmuseum.
wooden type, furniture, gamblin pnca watershed grey ink, brayer, apron, press…think we are ready to turn a corner at PAM into our studio for the evening. john henry is printing as part of Feast and Famine: An Eating Experience tonight only — we will be set up just outside of the sold out event. It is $5 after 5 tonight at the Museum, come by!
one glorious poet. two cases of wooden type. a portable proofing press. ink. brayer. a little sweat and the help of an iPhone. @johnhenrytweets still standing. thanks RACC, PNCA & MoCC and thank you Joy Harjo
packing the studio to move to PNCA for the evening. come hear poet Joy Harjo tonight at 6:30
packing up some type and the portable press to tweet onsite at PNCA tomorrow night. @johnhenrytweets